Re: Minor issue

Ok, thanks.

Frank



On 2020-05-26 2:11 PM, Daniele Varrazzo wrote:
> No, we don't want to add any intelligence in trying to figure out what
> is into a query. If you are comfortable that you will be using always
> the same pattern for comments you can easily clean the string yourself
> before passing it to psycopg.
> 
> A better approach for you I guess would be to use named placeholders,
> so that an a missing placeholder wouldn't require you to change the
> arguments to execute.
> 
> -- Daniele
> 
> On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 23:43, Frank Millman <frank@chagford.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all
>>
>> This is very minor, but I thought I would mention it.
>>
>> I have a function that returns a complex SQL query and a tuple of
>> parameters. The query is stored inside the function as a triple-quoted
>> string, and the parameters are derived depending on the input arguments.
>>
>> Sometimes while testing I will comment out some of the SQL using '--'.
>> If those lines happen to contain a parameter placeholder ('%s') I
>> expected to remove the parameter from the tuple as well.
>>
>> pyodbc and sqlite3 both work this way, but psycopg2 raises the exception
>> 'tuple index out of range'.
>>
>> I can live with it, but it means that I have to adjust the parameter
>> tuple differently depending on which database I am testing with.
>>
>> If it can be fixed, that would be nice. If it can't, no problem.
>>
>> Frank Millman
>>
>>