Обсуждение: character varying exceeded
WE have a db with a column/field of type "character varying" set to a length of 1000. A user attempted to enter data into this column/field breached the 1000 limit. When the user submitted the form the data was not entered into the database and no error or message was displayed. Is there a way to have postgresql let the user no the entry attempt was declined? What is the best way to handle these situations? Marc
Marc Fromm wrote: > WE have a db with a column/field of type "character varying" set to a > length of 1000. A user attempted to enter data into this column/field > breached the 1000 limit. When the user submitted the form the data was > not entered into the database and no error or message was displayed. > > Is there a way to have postgresql let the user no the entry attempt was > declined? What is the best way to handle these situations PostgreSQL does indicate that the statement failed. Chances are your application code (that does the insert) is ignoring the error. You should check your application code to ensure that it's handling error messages on insert failures correctly, and notifying the user as appropriate. -- Chander Ganesan Open Technology Group, Inc. One Copley Parkway, Suite 210 Morrisville, NC 27560 919-463-0999/877-258-8987 http://www.otg-nc.com Ask me about OTG's Expert PostgreSQL, PostGIS, PHP, and other Open Source training offerings.
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 08:19:56AM -0700, Marc Fromm wrote: > breached the 1000 limit. When the user submitted the form the data was > not entered into the database and no error or message was displayed. I think your application is broken. There was so an error message generated. It sounds like your application didn't catch it or display it. If you're using straight psql, then the problem is that client_min_messages is set too high, and clients aren't seeing errors. That's surely a mistake. A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@commandprompt.com +1 503 667 4564 x104 http://www.commandprompt.com/