Hi there, I have the following definitions,
1. CREATE TABLE Sampletemp ( Sampleid serial NOT NULL, SampleText character varying(50), CONSTRAINT Sampletemp_id PRIMARY KEY (Sampleid)); 2. Insert into Sampletemp (SampleText) values ('Mr. Raja'),('Mr. Alex'),('1000'),('2500'),('555'); 3. select sum(SampleText) as SampleText from Sampletemp; ERROR: function sum(character varying) does not exist LINE 3: select sum(SampleText) as SampleText from Sampletemp; ^ HINT: No function matches the given name and argument types. You may need to add explicit type casts. 4. select sum(SampleText :: int) as SampleText from Sampletemp; ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: "Mr. Raja" I am getting error while selecting using some aggregation. I would like to sum up these values, if it has TEXT (example Name)that can be ZERO while querying. I need answer as 4055. Can i have your suggestion/solutions please? Regards, Vikram A