knex js - column is of type timestamp but expression is of type character varying

Question

I am selecting rows from tableA and inserting the resulting rows into tableB , using knexJS . Both tableA and tableB have identical schemas in a Redshift database.

Columns names and types

1. id - int
2. created_date - timestamp without timezone

Code

knex(tableB)
  .insert(function() {
      this.select()
          .from(tableA)
          .whereRaw('id=?', ['12345']);
  });

Error

This code runs into the error below

error: column \"created_date\" is of type timestamp without time zone but expression is of type character varying

How to fix this in code? Updating db connection properties would be very very difficult for many reasons.

Any leads/help/suggestions will be appreciated

Answer 1

Maybe you are trying to do this:

knex('table1')
  .insert(
    knex.raw("?", [ knex('table2').where('id', '12345') ])
  );

outputs:

insert into "table1" (select * from "table2" where "id" = ?)

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