From: | "Reuben Cummings" <reubano(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | "Kris Jurka" <books(at)ejurka(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: neooffice form problem with numerics |
Date: | 2008-11-23 02:11:42 |
Message-ID: | 68bad9530811221811j301eb3adgcb4be0a9362b1884@mail.gmail.com |
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Thanks!!! Worked like a charm!! I was banging my head for days trying
to figure it out.
Reuben
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com> wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Reuben Cummings wrote:
>
>> Hi, I am trying to use a neooffice form to insert numerical values
>> into a postgres database and get the following error:
>>
>> ESTERROR: 42804: column "back_load" is of type numeric but expression
>> is of type character varying at character 35
>
> Neooffice is apparently calling setString for the numeric parameter. The
> driver assumes this means it is really a string type and the backend gets
> the type mismatch error. Neooffice should really be calling setBigDecimal
> for a numeric expression, but you can work around this by providing the
> driver with an instruction to avoid specifying a type for values provided by
> setString. Use the URL parameter "stringtype=unspecified" when connecting
> to the database and that should hopefully work.
>
> Kris Jurka
>
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