| From: | Neil Conway <nconway(at)klamath(dot)dyndns(dot)org> |
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| To: | "Doug Fields" <dfields-pg-general(at)pexicom(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: ERROR: value too long for type character varying(255) |
| Date: | 2002-05-21 20:24:34 |
| Message-ID: | 20020521162434.60fd83fb.nconway@klamath.dyndns.org |
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On Tue, 21 May 2002 12:17:38 -0400
"Doug Fields" <dfields-pg-general(at)pexicom(dot)com> wrote:
> In PG 7.1.3, ISTR I used to be able to submit any length I wished for a
> VARCHAR (and maybe a CHAR).
>
> Now, I'm at 7.2.1 and get these errors:
>
> ERROR: value too long for type character varying(255)
>
> as JDBC Exceptions.
>
> Do you know how I can tell it to "silently truncate" the data as I believe
> it used to?
Is there a reason you can't just use TEXT? It will be stored the same
internally...
But the most obvious way I can think of to do what you're asking is
to define a rule to replace the value inserted with a call to
substring().
Cheers,
Neil
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Neil Conway <neilconway(at)rogers(dot)com>
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