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Strange parse error??

From
Bjørn T Johansen
Date:
I am trying to do a simple update (or at least I thought it was
simple), but I just keep getting a parse error, saying:

Error executing query

Update "Config" Set "Wave" = 'F:\wav\BTJ.wav',"Answer" = 20,
"Recordwav" ='F:\wav\',"CalledID" = '12345678' where "Recno" = 1

PostgreSQL error message:
ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "12345678"

PostgreSQL status:PGRES_FATAL_ERROR


Does anyone have any suggestions to what might be wrong?


Regards,

BTJ

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Re: Strange parse error??

From
Stephan Szabo
Date:
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, [ISO-8859-1] Bj�rn T Johansen wrote:

> I am trying to do a simple update (or at least I thought it was
> simple), but I just keep getting a parse error, saying:
> 
> Error executing query
> 
> Update "Config" Set "Wave" = 'F:\wav\BTJ.wav',"Answer" = 20,
> "Recordwav" ='F:\wav\',"CalledID" = '12345678' where "Recno" = 1
> 
> PostgreSQL error message:
> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "12345678"

I believe that it's because postgres treats \ as an escape character
so the 'F:\wav\' was probably treating the closing \' as an escaped
quote inside the string.  You'll probably want to double the \ 
characters.

Re: Strange parse error??

From
"Ross J. Reedstrom"
Date:
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 11:49:30PM +0100, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
> I am trying to do a simple update (or at least I thought it was
> simple), but I just keep getting a parse error, saying:
> 
> Error executing query
> 
> Update "Config" Set "Wave" = 'F:\wav\BTJ.wav',"Answer" = 20,
> "Recordwav" ='F:\wav\',"CalledID" = '12345678' where "Recno" = 1
> 
> PostgreSQL error message:
> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "12345678"

Backslashes are used for quoting, so what you're trying to do looks
something like this to the server:

Update "Config" Set "Wave" = 'F:wavBTJ.wav',"Answer" = 20,"Recordwav" ='F:wav\',"CalledID" = '12345678' where "Recno" =
1

You could confirm by turning up debugging on the server and check
the logs.

So, it's trying to store the string :

F:wav',"CalledID" =

(with trailing space, even) in Recordwav.

Try doubling your backslashes, as so:
Update "Config" Set "Wave" = 'F:\\wav\\BTJ.wav',"Answer" = 20,
"Recordwav" ='F:\\wav\\',"CalledID" = '12345678' where "Recno" = 1


Ross