Johann Zuschlag wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:54:42 -0700 (PDT), Stephan Szabo wrote:
>
> >> -- Trigger: laenge_trig ON test
> >> CREATE TRIGGER "laenge_trig" BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE ON "test" FOR
> >> EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE laenge();
> >>
> >> insert into test (test1) values ('0123456789012');
> >>
> >> value too long for type character varying(10)
> >
> >The value is being coerced into the type before your trigger
> >runs to be put into the values you're testing and it fails
> >at that point.
>
> Is there a solution for such a problem?
> Let's assume you can't be sure whether you get
> the appropriate length in an insert.
Create the table field as VARCHAR without a maximum size.
Jan
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