From: | Volkan YAZICI <volkan(dot)yazici(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Raul Secan <raul(at)zerosoft(dot)ro> |
Cc: | pgsql-php(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: varchar error |
Date: | 2005-06-23 08:33:47 |
Message-ID: | 7104a73705062301332ca4bb4d@mail.gmail.com |
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Hi,
On 6/23/05, Raul Secan <raul(at)zerosoft(dot)ro> wrote:
> CREATE TABLE test (
> mytext varchar(5)
> ) WITHOUT OIDS;
>
> If I put a string with more than 5 chars in mytext, I receive an error,
> regarding the wrong lenght of the string.
>
> In MySQL I know that the string is automatically reduced to the number of
> char allowed by the column, even if I insert a longer string.
I don't think that it's the function of database to manipulate the input.
> I don't want to do this from PHP, and I was wandering how this can be done
> in PostreSQL? Maybe in CREATE TABLE definition?
IMHO, you can create an insert (and update) procedure (like
my_insert() and my_update()) with using substr() [1] function.
[1] www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/functions-string.html
Regards.
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