I just find a workaround, which also may shed light on the bug itself:
select 'hello ' || coalesce('there','there',0::text);
?column?
-------------
hello there
(1 row)
And this is very strange indeed:
select 'hello ' || coalesce('there','there',0);
?column?
-----------------
hello 136357064
(1 row)
There is obviously a serious typing bug :-)
-Dino
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dino Dini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 9:03 PM
Subject: case / coalesce problem with strings
> select 'hello ' || coalesce('there','there');
> ERROR: Function 'text(unknown)' does not exist
> Unable to identify a function that satisfies the given argument
> types
> You may need to add explicit typecasts
>
> It seems clear that the coalesce construction must return a string - so
why
> does this fail?
>
> The followinfg works just fine:
>
>
> -Dino
>
