Re: [GENERAL] WARNING: column "footype" has type "unknown"

2004-10-27 Thread Ed L.
On Wednesday October 27 2004 5:34, Ed L. wrote: > On Wednesday October 27 2004 5:24, Tom Lane wrote: > > An example of what you won't be able to do: > > > > regression=# select distinct * from fooview; > > ERROR: failed to find conversion function from "unknown" to text > > Is that 8.0 you're work

Re: [GENERAL] WARNING: column "footype" has type "unknown"

2004-10-27 Thread Ed L.
On Wednesday October 27 2004 5:24, Tom Lane wrote: > An example of what you won't be able to do: > > regression=# select distinct * from fooview; > ERROR: failed to find conversion function from "unknown" to text Is that 8.0 you're working against there? Here's my 7.4.6 installation: $ psql -c

Re: [GENERAL] WARNING: column "footype" has type "unknown"

2004-10-27 Thread Tom Lane
"Ed L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 7.4.6, is there any problem with defining one column of a view to be a > string literal? For example ... > $ psql -c "create view fooview as select 'bar' as footype" > WARNING: column "footype" has type "unknown" > DETAIL: Proceeding with relation creat

[GENERAL] WARNING: column "footype" has type "unknown"

2004-10-27 Thread Ed L.
On 7.4.6, is there any problem with defining one column of a view to be a string literal? For example ... $ psql -c "create view fooview as select 'bar' as footype" WARNING: column "footype" has type "unknown" DETAIL: Proceeding with relation creation anyway. CREATE VIEW Or is this warning j