Re: psql:t_mstr.sql:994: ERROR: function to_char(numeric) does not exist

2023-04-27 Thread gzh
>If you're porting a bunch of code written for Oracle to Postgres, >you'd have to run around and change every occurrence of "date" to >"timestamp" ... unless you install orafce, in which case you can >rely on this alias type that orafce creates. But you do then have >two types named "date"

Re: psql:t_mstr.sql:994: ERROR: function to_char(numeric) does not exist

2023-04-27 Thread Tom Lane
gzh writes: > I did the following two tests and found that the return value of > pg_catalog.date and oracle.date are inconsistent. Yeah ... that's pretty much the point. Oracle uses the name "date" for a data type that Postgres (and the SQL standard) calls a "timestamp". That's very ancient on

Re: psql:t_mstr.sql:994: ERROR: function to_char(numeric) does not exist

2023-04-25 Thread Erik Wienhold
> On 25/04/2023 13:34 CEST gzh wrote: > > >The solution is the same whether you upgrade or not: you need > >to adjust your search_path to include the "oracle" schema, > >or else explicitly qualify references to orafce functions. > Thank you very much for your help. > > To use the to_date functions

Re: psql:t_mstr.sql:994: ERROR: function to_char(numeric) does not exist

2023-04-25 Thread gzh
>The solution is the same whether you upgrade or not: you need >to adjust your search_path to include the "oracle" schema, >or else explicitly qualify references to orafce functions.Thank you very much >for your help. To use the to_date functions of Orafce 3.0.1, we created the following to_date

Re: psql:t_mstr.sql:994: ERROR: function to_char(numeric) does not exist

2023-04-19 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 4/19/23 10:02 AM, gzh wrote: Thank you for your prompt reply. Is there another solution if the database is not upgraded to 12.14? Better upgrade to latest release 12.14. The point being made was that 12.14 is the latest minor release so you might as well upgrade to it. It will not chang

Re: psql:t_mstr.sql:994: ERROR: function to_char(numeric) does not exist

2023-04-19 Thread Tom Lane
gzh writes: > Thank you for your prompt reply. > Is there another solution if the database is not upgraded to 12.14? The solution is the same whether you upgrade or not: you need to adjust your search_path to include the "oracle" schema, or else explicitly qualify references to orafce functions

Re: psql:t_mstr.sql:994: ERROR: function to_char(numeric) does not exist

2023-04-19 Thread gzh
Thank you for your prompt reply. Is there another solution if the database is not upgraded to 12.14? >Better upgrade to latest release 12.14. At 2023-04-19 22:51:33, "Erik Wienhold" wrote: >> On 19/04/2023 15:24 CEST gzh wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I upgraded the version of PostgreSQ

Re: psql:t_mstr.sql:994: ERROR: function to_char(numeric) does not exist

2023-04-19 Thread Erik Wienhold
> On 19/04/2023 15:24 CEST gzh wrote: > > Hi, > > I upgraded the version of PostgreSQL from 12.10 to 12.13, Better upgrade to latest release 12.14. > when I insert data into the t_mstr table, the to_char function in the t_mstr's > trigger caused the following error. > > psql:t_mstr.sql:994: ERRO