On Jan 10, 2008, at 10:47 AM, marcelo Cortez wrote:
folks the follow queries work in postgres 8.2 but in 8.3beta don't work SELECT c.* FROM c WHERE c.numero LIKE '1%'; i think automatic conversion of numeber to text is the problem , in 8.3beta don't work numero field is integer type any ideas?
Read the release notes :) Implicit casts from non-text types to text have been removed. The easiest solution is to use an explicit cast:
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