Re: Single-statement INSERT with multiple VALUES clauses behaving strangely...

> *[Results]:* Single Statement approach (#2) always reports ERROR: value
> too long for type character varying(16), even though approach #1 -
> Multiple Inserts - imported exactly the same data with no error.  Is the
> single statement approach, with its pre-testing of the query, more
> fastidious?  IE, is my data bad, or is this a bug?

I can't reproduce this issue.  You'll need to provide a test case.  In
other words, I suspect that the data wasn't exactly the same in both cases.

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