From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Allen <dba(at)girders(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Perl::DBI and interval syntax |
Date: | 2005-11-08 09:02:04 |
Message-ID: | 20051108090204.GA25050@svana.org |
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On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 05:58:04PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Allen <dba(at)girders(dot)org> writes:
> > SELECT count(*) from post where post_ts >= current_date - interval ?
>
> This is not right, and never has been right, even though it may have
> accidentally failed to fail with some client libraries. Try
> CAST(? as interval) (SQL standard)
> ?::interval (Postgres-ism)
>
> The "interval something" syntax is only legal when "something" is
> a bare string literal.
This seems to be an example of breakage caused by DBI switching from
"substitute params in client" to "use new protocol to substitute params
in server" (prepare/execute).
AIUI, if you disable use of the new protocol, it should work as before.
Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a
> tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone
> else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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