Re: where is this problem (trigger)

Ignore that last post.... of course I have a
production machine and a development machine and I
should have updated the development machine before
opening my mouth...

Everything works just fine.... thanks.

Ted

--- Theodore Petrosky <tedpet5(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
> Great I got the double quotes in the trigger... like
> this:
>
> CREATE FUNCTION notify_jobinfo() RETURNS "trigger"
> AS '
> BEGIN
> EXECUTE ''NOTIFY
> "''||TG_RELNAME||''_''||NEW.jobnumber||''"'';
> RETURN NEW;
> END
> ' LANGUAGE plpgsql;
>
> and it works great... however, i did a pg_dump of
> the
> db to back it up. On a lark I started looking
> through
> the file and I decided to look at the dumped trigger
> and this is what I see.
>
> --
> -- TOC entry 29 (OID 17180)
> -- Name: notify_on_update(); Type: FUNCTION; Schema:
> public; Owner: postgres
> --
>
> CREATE FUNCTION notify_on_update() RETURNS "trigger"
> AS '
> BEGIN
> EXECUTE ''NOTIFY
> ''||TG_RELNAME||''_''||NEW.jobnumseq;
> RETURN NEW;
> END
> '
> LANGUAGE plpgsql;
>
> Ouch... it looks like pg_dump forgot my double
> quotes.
>
> Do you have any ideas? If I reimport this dump file
> the triggers won't work when it meets a row with a
> dot
> in the column. Of course I can just update my data
> to
> use the underscore instead of the dot.....
>
> Ted
>
>
> --- Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 12 May 2004, Theodore Petrosky wrote:
> >
> > > I can not seem to update these rows because of
> the
> > dot
> > > in the jobnumber field. I have found that I can
> > change
> > > the dot to an underscore but I thought I would
> ask
> > if
> > > there is a better solution.
> > >
> > > here is the error:
> > >
> > > UPDATE jobinfo SET isbilled = false WHERE
> > jobnumber =
> > > '1162.01';
> > > ERROR: syntax error at or near ".01" at
> character
> > 20
> > > CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function "notify_jobinfo"
> line
> > 2 at
> > > execute statement
> >
> > From the docs, it looks like NOTIFY takes an
> > identifier
> > as a name. Foo_1023.01 is not a valid identifier
> so
> > you
> > might want to double quote the string since
> > "Foo_1023.01"
> > is one.

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