Re: How to avoid nulls while writing string for dynamic query

oh, ok understood.
What will happen for a timestamp field. Let us say c1 is a timestamp column.

sqlstr := 'insert into test(c1, c2) values
('||'\''||COALESCE(rec.c1,'NULL')||'\','
> > ||'\''||rec.c2||'\')';

If this case the query will be
insert into test(c1,c2) values ('2004-02-13', 'Hai')

If there is a null value encountered i will return an error for the
following query
insert into test(c1,c2) values ('NULL', 'Hai')
ERROR: Bad timestamp external representation 'NULL'

I think using 'CASE' this could be solved. But instead is there any other
simple way to do it.

Thanks a lot Mr. Tomasz Myrta
Kumar

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tomasz Myrta" <jasiek(at)klaster(dot)net>
To: "Kumar" <sgnerd(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)sg>
Cc: "psql" <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: [SQL] How to avoid nulls while writing string for dynamic query

> Dnia 2004-02-13 05:53, Użytkownik Kumar napisał:
>
> > I am having problem there. see what happens
> >
> > sqlstr := 'insert into test(c1, c2) values
('||COALESCE(rec.c1,'NULL')||','
> > ||'\''||rec.c2||'\')';
>
> You are preparing a string, so make sure you have strings everywhere:
> sqlstr := 'insert into test(c1, c2) values
> ('||COALESCE(rec.c1::text,'NULL')||','||'\''||rec.c2||'\')';
>
> Regards,
> Tomasz Myrta