Re: Encountered an error - Mailing list psycopg

From Karsten Hilbert
Subject Re: Encountered an error
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Msg-id 20160314183059.GB24296@hermes.hilbert.loc
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In response to Re: Encountered an error  (Shaan Repswal <shaun.reapswaal@gmail.com>)
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On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 08:41:04PM +0530, Shaan Repswal wrote:

> I tried to format the strings the Python way but... I'm getting this error:-
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:\Python34\prototype_husk.py", line 133, in submit_data
>     cur.execute(add_column)
> psycopg2.ProgrammingError: syntax error at or near "26.2"
> LINE 2:                             ADD 26.2 LTRS int DEFAULT NULL

That is what I have been trying to point out - you can't add
a column named "25.2 LTRS" even if the user entered that
value. You will need code to sanitize user input to become
suitable for column names. I seem to remember you saying you
already have such code ?

Karsten
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