| From: | Richard Huxton <richardh(at)archonet(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Johann Zuschlag" <zuschlag(at)online(dot)de>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Why does this not work? |
| Date: | 2002-04-11 17:59:06 |
| Message-ID: | 200204111859.06242.richardh@archonet.com |
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On Thursday 11 April 2002 17:38, Johann Zuschlag wrote:
> "test1" varchar(10)
> CREATE FUNCTION "laenge"() RETURNS "opaque" AS '
> begin
> if length(new.test1) > 10 then
...
> insert into test (test1) values ('0123456789012');
>
> value too long for type character varying(10)
I believe it's the parser being helpful and checking data-types as early as
possible. You can see why - if "new.test1" is a varchar(10) how _can_ it hold
any more.
You might want to look in the mail archives. Someone mentioned this very
problem not long ago.
- Richard Huxton
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