From: | Jerry Sievers <jerry(at)jerrysievers(dot)com> |
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To: | Steve Holdoway <steve(at)firetrust(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: validating incoming string length... |
Date: | 2006-11-14 16:06:41 |
Message-ID: | m37ixy9fn2.fsf@homie.jerrysievers.com |
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Steve Holdoway <steve(at)firetrust(dot)com> writes:
> I'm trying to write a pl/pgsql trigger to validate incoming data to
> an existing database. One of the fields is defined as character
> varying (255). Is there any way of catching over-length data on
> inserts and silently dropping them? At the moment, I'm getting the
> error 'ERROR: value too long for type character varying(255)' no
> matter what I try.
Sure. Change the columns data type to text where you'll have no size
restriction and then let your trigger gun those illegal entries.
HTH
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