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From	Tom Larard
Subject	Re: implicit casting problem
Date	November 11, 2004 22:29:53
Msg-id	Pine.GSO.4.21.0411111415200.23470-100000@blade71.cs.umb.edu Whole thread Raw
In response to	implicit casting problem (Tom Larard <larard@cs.umb.edu>)
List	pgsql-general

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Fixed, this was a problem with weakly typed languages such as perl,
sometime it doesn't know what SQL_TYPE to send, so it sends
SQL_VARCHAR.

The solution is to use
bind_param(<placeholder_number>,<value>,DBI::SQL_FLOAT);

Tom

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