Pgsql error: You might need to add explicit type casts

Question

My website is just working fine til i deployed it to heroku and the problem is heroku uses pgsql and I\'m using mysql and laravel framework.

my query is

Answer 1

You could do this:

$q->where('cast(vaccine_id AS VARCHAR)','LIKE','%' . $vaccine_id)

OR

$q->where('cast(vaccine_id AS TEXT)','LIKE','%' . $vaccine_id)