[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/14/2008 01:21:26 AM:

> Hello.
> 
> I create a table:
> 
> CREATE TABLE groups (
>   group_id serial PRIMARY KEY,
>   name varchar(64) UNIQUE NOT NULL,
>   guests integer[] DEFAULT '{}'
> )
> 
> I add a new record to the table:
> 
> INSERT INTO groups (name) VALUES ('My friends');
> 
> Now the table contains 1 record:
> 
> | group_id |    name    | guests
> +----------+------------+--------
> |        1 | My friends | {}
> 
> I read the new record from the table using DBI:
> 
> my $sth = $dbh->prepare(qq/SELECT * FROM groups/);
> $sth->execute();
> my (@guests, $group);
> push(@guests, $group) while $group = $sth->fetchrow_hashref(); # Line 4
> print $guests[0]->{guests}->[0]; # Why ({group_id=>1, name=>'My 
friends', 
> guests=>[0]}) ?
> 
> Output of the script:
> 
> Argument "" isn't numeric in null operation at ./guestmanager.pl line 4
> 0
> 
> DBD should return a reference to an empty array. But DBD returned 
> the reference to the array containing 1 element (0). How can I have 
> a different result:
> 
> ({group_id=>1, name=>'My friends', guests=>[]})
> 
> PS
> Version of DBD::Pg is 2.9.0 .

This can't be the whole program, since you show line 4 (per the error 
message), which is marked as line 4, but you never connected to the 
database.
Also, I would put parentheses around the expression in the while, to make 
sure the precedence is what you think it is.

I have a slightly different DBD::Pg version, so I can't test it exactly. 
Does your version support array types?  I don't think mine does (older 
version).

Susan

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