BUG #2974: broken CHECK constraint with varchar

Started by Michal Schwarzabout 19 years ago2 messagesbugs
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#1Michal Schwarz
misch@czechin.cz

The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference: 2974
Logged by: Michal Schwarz
Email address: misch@czechin.cz
PostgreSQL version: 8.1.7
Operating system: Fedora Core 6
Description: broken CHECK constraint with varchar
Details:

CREATE TABLE t (c VARCHAR(20));
ALTER TABLE t ADD CONSTRAINT xyz CHECK (c IN ('A','B','C'));
INSERT INTO t VALUES ('A');

Results:
ERROR: attribute 1 has wrong type
DETAIL: Table has type character varying, but query expects character
varying.

In previous versions, everything worked correctly. Problem arised in 8.1.7
(maybe only in Fedora release???). When i returned back to 8.1.6, everything
worked again.

#2Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Michal Schwarz (#1)
Re: BUG #2974: broken CHECK constraint with varchar

Michal Schwarz wrote:

The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference: 2974
Logged by: Michal Schwarz
Email address: misch@czechin.cz
PostgreSQL version: 8.1.7
Operating system: Fedora Core 6
Description: broken CHECK constraint with varchar
Details:

CREATE TABLE t (c VARCHAR(20));
ALTER TABLE t ADD CONSTRAINT xyz CHECK (c IN ('A','B','C'));
INSERT INTO t VALUES ('A');

Results:
ERROR: attribute 1 has wrong type
DETAIL: Table has type character varying, but query expects character
varying.

In previous versions, everything worked correctly. Problem arised in 8.1.7
(maybe only in Fedora release???). When i returned back to 8.1.6, everything
worked again.

Please upgrade to 8.1.8. That was a rush release to fix this bug added
in 8.1.7.

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