On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi all, i want to know how to insert values into the field which is a complex > type. In fact it is a complex type which also include a complex type. The > following is its definition: > create TYPE lifetime as( strattime date, endtime date);
> create TYPE attributetype as( ID numeric, address character(50), > periodspan lifetime); > create TABLE attribute2005( gid serial, allfield attributetype); > now i want to insert data into the table attribute2005 but always failure so > wish someone can help. > my sql is following: > INSERT INTO attribute2005 > VALUES(1,(23,'ee','ttt',('2005-01-01','2005-12-31'))); I'm running on 8.3, but in that version at least, it looks like you have a few options for the values and one of these should hopefully work in 8.2. VALUES (1, ROW(23, 'ee', ROW('2005-01-01', '2005-12-31'))); VALUES (1, '(23,"ee","(2005-01-01,2005-12-31)")') There are other slight variations on this second one, you can remove the double quotes around ee and it looks like you can add double quotes around the dates, etc. It also looks like your attibute type above only had 2 scalars and the complex type rather than three, so I've dropped the 'ttt' for the examples above. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general