Thread: Automatic value truncation during update

Automatic value truncation during update

From
"Glen Parker"
Date:
Postgres 7.1.* and before I believe would silently truncate values to
fit into their destination fields during insert/update, but 7.2.* gives
an error when values are too long.  I realize the new behavior is
probably more correct, but I grew accustom to the old behavior and now
have queries that rely on that behavior, for better or worse.  I don't
see a way to get pgsql to use the old behavior.  Am I missing it or is
it really not there?

Glen Parker
glenebob@nwlink.com


Re: Automatic value truncation during update

From
Doug Fields
Date:
At 02:36 PM 6/3/2002, Glen Parker wrote:
>Postgres 7.1.* and before I believe would silently truncate values to
>fit into their destination fields during insert/update, but 7.2.* gives
>an error when values are too long.  I realize the new behavior is
>probably more correct, but I grew accustom to the old behavior and now
>have queries that rely on that behavior, for better or worse.  I don't
>see a way to get pgsql to use the old behavior.  Am I missing it or is
>it really not there?

Having just gone through this: It's really not there.

Check the archives for the last month or two for all the work-arounds
suggested. The easy way out is to use TEXT fields.

Cheers,

Doug