This worked. Thank you all! I know the casting is quite basic operation but could this be added to the CREATE VIEW documentation? Now there is only an example: CREATE VIEW vista AS SELECT text 'Hello World' AS hello; The same syntax won't work with other type as Tom wrote. -Lauri On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Lauri Kajan <lauri.kajan@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> This works with other values but not with nulls: > >> CREATE VIEW view1 AS >> SELECT >> attribute1 as a1, >> text null as a2, >> text 'test' as a3 >> FROM >> table; > > FYI, the syntax typename 'literal' works *only* with string literals, > not anything else. For any other target you have to write > CAST(value AS typename) or equivalently value::typename. > CAST is SQL-standard, :: is a Postgres-ism. > > regards, tom lane > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
