On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:11:09 +0200, Shaun Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what the problem is here:
> I am inserting into a table via a stored procedure, to a few columns within
> the table and postgres is throwing a
> CANNOT EXECUTE NULL QUERY.
>
> <code snip>
> EXECUTE ''INSERT INTO table (column1, column2, column3,
> ''||quote_ident(column4)||'') values
> (''||quote_literal(RECORDNAME.column1)||'',''||quote_literal(RECORDNAME.colu
> mn2)||'',''''stringvalue'''',''||quote_literal(RECORDNAME.column2)||'')'';
> </code snip>
>
> Is this a bug, as I am ensuring that the NOT NULL columns are supplied, as
> well as one other.
At least one of column4, recordname.column1, recordname.column2,
recordname.column2 is null. If you append a null to a string, the
result is null.
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