<p><font size="2">Hi Gurus,</font><p><font size="2">This has been bothered me for a couple of days. I wrote a postgres
dbapplication in perl which parses a syslog file and inserts some data into a table. I put the actual insertion in a
evalblock, so the application won't die when insertion fails. But it doesn't work as I expected. When it encounter a
"DBD::Pg::stexecute failed: ERROR: Bad timestamp external representation 'Jan 11 18:05:50 at (eval 9) line 426,
<MSGS>line 1." error, the whole program die.</font><p><font size="2">I'm using DBD::Pg intereface, postgres
7.1.3.Here is the codes:</font><p><font
size="2">-----------------------------------------------------------------------</font><br/><font size="2">my $dbh =
DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:dbname=$dbname",$dbuser,$dbpass,{AutoCommit=> 0,RaiseError => 1,PrintError => 0}) ||
die"Unable to connect to $dbname on $dbhost [$DBI::errstr]\n";</font><p><font size="2">while(1)</font><br /><font
size="2">{</font><br/> <font size="2"># reading from MSGS and parsing here</font><p> <font size="2">$sth
=$dbh->prepare("insert into http_request</font><br /> <font
size="2">(INTERFACE_ID,INTERFACE_DIR,REQUEST_TIME,SRC,URL,result_id)</font><br/><font size="2">
values(?,?, ?, ?, ?, ?)");</font><p> <font size="2">eval {</font><br /><font size="2">
$sth->execute($ifid,$idir,$timestamp,$userip,$destip,$rid);</font><br/><font size="2">
$sth->finish;</font><br/><font size="2"> $dbh->commit;</font><br /> <font
size="2">};</font><p> <font size="2">if($@)</font><br /> <font size="2">{</font><br /><font
size="2"> print "Insert failed\n";</font><br /><font size="2"> print "$@";</font><br
/> <font size="2">}</font><br /><font size="2">}</font><p><font
size="2">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</font><p><fontsize="2">I noticed
thatthe timestamp is not valid, but the excution should continue. Strange thing is that it didn't die right away. After
print"$@"prints out the error "DBD::Pg::st execute failed: ERROR: Bad timestamp external representation 'Jan 11
18:05:50 at (eval 9) line 426, <MSGS> line 1." it dies.</font><p><font size="2">So what do I miss
here?</font><p><fontsize="2">Thanks in advance!</font><br /><p><font size="2">Andy</font>