Oliver -
Thanks, much! I figured the latter out subsequent to my initial post,
but had not thought of the former, which ended up being more elegant for
my application. Again, thanks.
- Will
Oliver Jowett wrote:
> Will Szopko wrote:
>
>> I have just upgraded to the 8.1-404 version of the JDBC driver from a
>> much older version. In the past I had been able load an interval into
>> my database by sending it as a string, as such:
>>
>> String myInterval = "08:00"; // 8 hour interval
>> ...
>> stmt.setString(1, myInterval);
>>
>> Using the new driver I am no longer able to do this and get the
>> following error:
>>
>> column "num_hours" is of type interval but expression is of type text
>
> Use "CAST (? AS INTERVAL)" in your query, or use the custom
> org.postgresql.util.PGInterval type and pass an instance to setObject().
>
> -O
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