8.4 RC1 union/nested select cast bug? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

With 8.4RC1, I get the following error with the SQL below.

ERROR: failed to find conversion function from unknown to character varying
SQL state: XX000


SELECT 0 AS "C1", cast('a' as varchar) AS "C2"
UNION ALL 
SELECT 1 AS "C1", "X"."XX" AS "C2"
FROM ( SELECT NULL AS "XX" ) AS "X"
WHERE TRUE = FALSE


Compare that SQL to this:


SELECT 0 AS "C1", cast('a' as varchar) AS "C2"
UNION ALL 
SELECT 1 AS "C1", NULL AS "C2"
WHERE TRUE = FALSE

The second works without the nested subquery.

I ran into SQL like the above when trying to use the Npgsql .Net driver 2.0.5 via Microsoft's Entity Framework
(edmgen.exe). It happened against two different databases.  Both have UTF-8 encoding and English, United States
language.

-- 
Eric