Re: a stored procedure ..with integer as the parameter - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: a stored procedure ..with integer as the parameter
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Msg-id 20051020233951.A7227@megazone.bigpanda.com
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In response to a stored procedure ..with integer as the parameter  ("surabhi.ahuja" <surabhi.ahuja@iiitb.ac.in>)
List pgsql-general
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, surabhi.ahuja wrote:

>  i have a stored procedure
>
> insert_table(integer)
>  which does "insert into table (x) value ($1)";
>
> now in my client i call the stored procedure as
>
> select insert_table("3");
>
> it works fine and inserts 3 into the table
>
> but suppose i give
>
> select insert_table("");
>
> it gives an error ...saying "  invalid input syntax for integer: "
>
> please suggest a solution to this problem

Don't try to use an empty string as an integer?

Seriously, you need to give information about what you want to happen,
because an empty string isn't a valid integer and can't really be
converted into one (we explicitly removed code that handled this case
because we thought it didn't make sense).

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