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Re: Redefining a column within a view

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Jeffrey Schade wrote:
> We have a table which contains a 3 byte column with datatype CHAR(3) which we want to redefine within
> the view as a CHAR(1) column and a CHAR(2) column. When I code the SUBSTR function the resulting
> column datatype is TEXT. I would like to see the CHAR datatype, is there anything I can do to set the
> proper datatype. The sample view is below:
> 
> CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW schema.jeff_view AS
>  SELECT col1 ,
>                 col2,
>                 Substr(col3,1,1) as col3_part1,
>                 Substr(col3,2)     as col3_part2,
>                 col4
>   FROM schema.jeff_table;

Try:
[...]
                 Substr(col3,1,1)::char(1) as col3_part1,
                 Substr(col3,2)::char(2)   as col3_part2,
[...]

Yours,
Laurenz Albe


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