> "The data types of all the result expressions must be convertible to a > single output type." The type of the field pg_class.relkind appears to be "char" which is described in the notes as: The type "char" (note the quotes) is different from char(1) in that it only uses one byte of storage. It is internally used in the system catalogs as a poor-man's enumeration type. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/datatype-character.html But one would expect "char" to be "convertible" to text for the purposes of CASE. Both implicit and explicit cast to text seems to work fine. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster