On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 10:02:39PM +0000, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> > Mon Dec 7 13:19:01 2009 : Error: [ourlittle_sql] Couldn't update SQL
> > accounting STOP record - ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: ""
> >
> > accounting_stop_query = "UPDATE ${acct_table2} \
> > SET
> > AcctSessionTime = CASE WHEN '%{Acct-Session-Time}' = '' THEN \
> > (EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM ('%S'::TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE -
> > AcctStartTime::TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE \
> > - '%{%{Acct-Delay-Time}:-0}'::INTERVAL)))::BIGINT ELSE
> > '%{Acct-Session-Time}' END, \
> >
> > I'm not sure what to do... can the query be rewritten in a manner that
> > would
> > allow for both use cases?
>
> If I understand correctly the below may work. If %{Acct-Session-Time} is
> an empty string it will return NULL otherwise it will return
> %{Acct-Session-Time}.
>
> ELSE
> NULLIF('%{Acct-Session-Time}','') END,
Thanks, that should work, with a slight modification - explicit cast to
'bigint', because a nullif()'ed '' is still a 'text' by default.
The two cases then evaluate like this:
pgsql=# select CASE WHEN '' = '' THEN 1234::BIGINT ELSE NULLIF('', '')::BIGINT END AS value;
value
-------
1234
(1 row)
pgsql=# select CASE WHEN '13' = '' THEN 1234::BIGINT ELSE NULLIF('13', '')::BIGINT END AS value;
value
-------
13
(1 row)
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