Re: [SQL] polygon problem

Brent Wood <brent(dot)wood(at)blazemail(dot)com> writes:
> insert into table1 values ('poly1',((0,0),(0,1),(1,0)),'s');
> This fails with the msg:
> ERROR: parser: parser error at or near ","

I think you need quotes around the polygon value, ie,

insert into table1 values ('poly1','((0,0),(0,1),(1,0))','s');

As a rule of thumb, the only datatypes that don't need quotes around
literal values in SQL statements are numeric types. Our SQL parser
doesn't understand weird datatypes like polygon --- it wants a string
literal, which it'll eventually hand off to the type-specific input
routine for the datatype.

regards, tom lane