Re: potential bug in trigger with boolean params

På onsdag 11. mai 2011 kl 10:56:19 skrev :
> > Hi,
> > I was trying to create a trigger with parameters. I've found a potential
> > bug
> > when the param is boolean.
> >
> > Here is code replicating the bug:
> >
> > CREATE TABLE x(x TEXT);
> >
> > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION trigger_x() RETURNS TRIGGER AS $$
> > BEGIN
> >         RETURN NEW;
> > END; $$ LANGUAGE PLPGSQL;
> >
> > CREATE TRIGGER trig_x_text BEFORE INSERT ON x FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE
> > PROCEDURE
> > trigger_x('text');
> > CREATE TRIGGER trig_x_int BEFORE INSERT ON x FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE
> > PROCEDURE
> > trigger_x(10);
> > CREATE TRIGGER trig_x_float BEFORE INSERT ON x FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE
> > PROCEDURE trigger_x(42.0);
> > CREATE TRIGGER trig_x_bool BEFORE INSERT ON x FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE
> > PROCEDURE
> > trigger_x(true);
> >
> > ERROR:  syntax error at or near "true"
> > LINE 1: ... INSERT ON x FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE trigger_x(true);
> 
> The docs clearly state what the valid values are and the literal 'true' is
> not one of them (TRUE is). See this:
> 
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/datatype-boolean.html

What are you trying to accomplish? "CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION trigger_x()" does not declare any formal-parameters, so calling it with arguments doesn't make sense. I'm surprised creating the other triggers didn't produce an error stating "No function defined with the name trigger_ix and the given argument-type".

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