Re: Error with DISTINCT - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Error with DISTINCT
Date
Msg-id 20139.969027199@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Error with DISTINCT  (Jerome Raupach <jraupach@intelcom.fr>)
List pgsql-sql
Jerome Raupach <jraupach@intelcom.fr> writes:
> testdb=#SELECT DISTINCT table_2.f1, table_1.f2, '2000-08-22' AS
> testdb-#date FROM table_1, table_2 WHERE table_1.f1 = table_2.f1;
> ERROR:  Unable to identify an ordering operator '<' for type 'unknown'
>         Use an explicit ordering operator or modify the query

> Is it a bug ?

No, I don't think so.  The system has no way to intuit what datatype
you consider '2000-08-22' to be.

SELECT DISTINCT table_2.f1, table_1.f2, '2000-08-22'::date ...

would work.
        regards, tom lane


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