Re: no value for numeric filed in SQL statement causes an error

You can do it one of two ways, dynamically build your queries and leave
out fields that are blank (they will be set to the default value or, if
none is specified, NULL), i.e.:

INSERT INTO table (name, city) VALUES ('roger rabbit', 'carrot city');

or, assign a default value to the id variable, and update the variable if
the form field is not blank, leaving you with:

INSERT INTO table (name, id, city) VALUES ('roger rabbit', <<Default ID
Variable or Form Value Variable>>, 'carrot city');

You cannot put a column with any of the number types (int4, numeric,
etc.) into the field list and leave it blank, a value *must* be specified.

Michael Fork - CCNA - MCP - A+
Network Support - Toledo Internet Access - Toledo Ohio

On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 juerg(dot)rietmann(at)pup(dot)ch wrote:

> Hi there
>
> I have a table with char and int fields. From my form I get no values back
> for int fields when they are left blank. This causes the SQL insert to
> fail.
>
> field type
> name char
> id int2
> city char
>
> insert into table (name,id,city) values ('roger rabbit',,'carrot city')
>
> The default for int/float fields is 0. Since I reuse the code of the
> referring page I don't like to have all fields assigned 0 at the beginning.
>
> Who can help ???
>
> Thanks ... jr
>
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