Re: Problem inserting data

On Friday 20 June 2008 5:20 am, Tk421 wrote:
> Hello everybody.
>
> I''ve just converted an access database to postgres. The conversion
> was ok, but when i'm trying to insert data on some tables with boolean
> types from a Visual Basic application i receive an error. A sample:
>
> table example, with firs field of integer, second of type text and
> third of type boolean
>
> the query: INSERT INTO EXAMPLE VALUES (1, 'text', 0)
>
> When i used access this worked fine, in boolean types 0 is false and
> 1 is true, but in postgres (8.1 and 8.3 version) i receive the next error:
>
> column "premarco" is of type boolean but expression is of type integer
>
> My question is, can i force postgres to accept integer values as
> boolean without changin query to INSERT INTO EXAMPLE VALUES (1, 'text',
> 0::boolean). This is a problem because if I have to do this i will have
> to test about one hundred queryes
>
> Thank you very much

Two options:
1) Change the column in Postgres to an integer type.
2) Change the assignment in pg_cast from explicit to implied for the
int4,bool cast. See for more details:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/catalog-pg-cast.html
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Adrian Klaver
aklaver(at)comcast(dot)net