Steve,
Prepared statements bind the in params to the type.
which is why it won't work.
if you used a statement and did what you did below it would work.
You can extend PGobject to create a PGMacaddr object to get it to work
with prepared statements
Dave
On 4-Aug-08, at 10:46 AM, Steve Foster wrote:
> Dave,
>
> Yes its of type macaddr, if I build the statement manually (with all
> the quoting uglyness) then its fine, e.g.
>
> create table test (a serial, b macaddr);
>
> insert into test (b) values ('00:00:00:00:00:00');
> insert into test (b) values ('00:00:00:00:00:01');
> insert into test (b) values ('00:00:00:00:00:02');
>
> Cheers
>
> Steve
>
> Dave Cramer wrote:
>> Steve,
>>
>>
>> What are the column types in the table. If it is macaddr type then
>> this is expected behaviour.
>>
>> Dave
>> On 4-Aug-08, at 9:28 AM, Steve Foster wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to bulk load some MAC addresses using a prepared
>>> statement. But I keep on getting an error about incorrect datatype
>>> (complains that I'm trying to insert "character varying"). Bellow
>>> is an example of the code that I'm using:
>>>
>>> try {
>>>
>>> Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver");
>>> conn = DriverManager.getConnection(jdbc_url, jdbc_user,
>>> jdbc_pass);
>>>
>>> PreparedStatement stmt = conn.prepareStatement("insert
>>> into log (date, time, mac, network) values (?,?,?,?)");
>>>
>>> while (inputLineIterator.hasNext()) {
>>> String[] line = inputLineIterator.next();
>>> if (line == null) {
>>> continue;
>>> }
>>> stmt.setDate(1, new
>>> java.sql.Date( dfmt.parse(line[0]).getTime()) );
>>> stmt.setDate(2, new
>>> java.sql.Date( tfmt.parse(line[1]).getTime()) );
>>> stmt.setString(3, line[2]);
>>> stmt.setString(4, line[3]);
>>> stmt.execute();
>>> }
>>>
>>> stmt.close();
>>> }
>>>
>>> Any recommendations?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
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