Re: string is sometimes null ?

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: Graeme Hinchliffe <graeme(dot)hinchliffe(at)zeninternet(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: string is sometimes null ?
Date: 2004-09-29 16:44:33
Message-ID: 20040929094300.U63616@megazone.bigpanda.com
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On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Graeme Hinchliffe wrote:

> The RADIUS server is reporting problems when trying to write START of
> accounting entries, and the error given is:
>
> ERROR: cannot EXECUTE a null querystring CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function
> "radacct_trig" line 43 at open
>
> The lines its refering to are:
>
> --- START ---
>
> str:=''SELECT
> username,year_of_jan,current_in,current_out,current_start,last_update,m''||monthcurr||''_in
> AS monthin,m''||monthcurr||''_out AS monthout
> FROM customer_stats WHERE username=''''''||username||'''''''';

If monthcurr or username are null, the above will be null.
Anything || NULL => NULL.

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