On Feb 11, 3:15 am, "${spencer}" <spenc...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I just literally ran my first search of the day and got the same > error. > > i changed my query so that the integer was cast into text and then it > worked fine. > > thefro...@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > All, > > > I'm getting the following (new) (php?) error on a database recently > > moved from 8.2.6 to 8.3. I know there's been changes with casts in 8.3 > > and I intend to learn how to fix them but I don't know how to > > interpret the error: > > > ERROR: operator does not exist: character <> integer LINE 1: ... > > 303841-9' and amount > 0 and quant > 0 and reg_id != 99) gro... ^ > > HINT: No operator matches the given name and argument type(s). You > > might need to add explicit type casts. > > > I think that > > > operator does not exist: character <> integer > > > is the key here. Does it mean the query is trying to interpret a text > > string as an integer? The string ...303841-9 is an ISBN number and is > > char(16) in the table. > > > Thanks for any pointers or links to a tutorial. > > > tf Ya know, I found and fixed my problem today at work. I just explicitly cast everything in the query and as I worked my way through it I watched how the error message changed. At the very end I came up to something like "...and store != $store". I changed it to "...and store != '$store'" and, bingo the query worked again. Then I backed out all the :: casting I had done and everything still worked. 'magine that. tf ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings