Setting a field to default if blank value

From: "Robert Fitzpatrick" <robert(at)webtent(dot)com>
To: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Setting a field to default if blank value
Date: 2003-04-28 17:12:51
Message-ID: 000d01c30da9$66be2f80$0b01a8c0@columbus
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-general

Looking for the best way of handling this, would like to do it in the
database and not in my apps. I set a field to 'Not Null', but if a blank
value comes in, the field will accept it as just that, a blank string.
How can avoid this using a trigger or function? I thought about a
function that would check the field and then place a trigger, but that
gets to be a lot of functions and triggers for different fields. Is
there a way to pass a field name to the function? (in plpgsql)

Or what is the best way to handle this for many different fields in many
tables?

--
Robert

Responses

Browse pgsql-general by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Dennis Gearon 2003-04-28 17:24:15 Re: problems restoring 7.2.1 dump to 7.3.2
Previous Message Tom Lane 2003-04-28 16:52:59 Re: problems restoring 7.2.1 dump to 7.3.2