Re: Re: INSERT INTO problem

Heh, I originally had that in the message then deleted it as possible noise.

My original insert had
  1 as isdepartment

I then migrated to
  1::int2 as isdepartment

and finally to the version I had posted.  All returned the same error, 
unfortunately.

Alfonso Peniche wrote:

> Did you try removing the quotes from    '1'::int2 as isdepartment
> so that it looks:
> 
> insert into reportentity
>    select 'D0'||text(departmentid) as reportentityid,
>    departmentname as reportentityname,
>    1 as isdepartment,
>    departmentdescription as reportentitydescription,
>    departmentsummary as reportentitysummary
> from department where isreportentity > 0;
> 
> 
> Tom Jenkins wrote:
> 
>> Hello all,
>> I'm trying to do an INSERT INTO using a UNION of two selects.  I
>> received an error:
>>   "ERROR:  Unable to convert varchar to int2 for column isdepartment"
>> 
>> 

Tom Jenkins
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