In Postgres 7.3.5 - When we try to insert a new record into our parties.party table which is then meant to fire off a trigger to update a column in the table with some de-normalised information, we get the following error: ERROR: FLOATING POINT EXCEPTION! The last floating point operation either exceeded the legal ranges or was a divide by zero.
Can someone help spot our syntax erorr, please?
This looks to me like a candidate:
v_ref := \'\'/\'\';
Without escaping it looks like v_ref := ''/''; dividing 2 empty strings, and indeed gives division by zero in psql. What dividing 2 strings is actually supposed to mean is not evident form the docs in the first glance.
v_ref := \'\'/\'\' || v_parent_party_id || v_ref;
This one too.
Andre
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