On Tuesday 30 March 2010 4:23:39 pm Wang, Mary Y wrote: > Hi, > > I'm confused. I'm in the process of migrating to 8.3.8. I used pg_dump > and pg_restore command for migration. Here is my problem. > Here is my old table prior migration: > \d activity_log > Table "activity_log" > Attribute | Type | Modifier > -----------+----------------------+-------------------------- > day | integer | not null default '0' > hour | integer | not null default '0' > group_id | integer | not null default '0' > browser | character varying(8) | not null default 'OTHER' > ver | double precision | not null default '0.00' > platform | character varying(8) | not null default 'OTHER' > time | integer | not null default '0' > page | text | > type | integer | not null default '0' > user_id | integer | not null default '0' > > > Here is my table after migration: > \d activity_log; > Table "public.activity_log" > Column | Type | Modifiers > ----------+----------------------+----------------------------------------- >---- day | integer | not null default 0 > hour | integer | not null default 0 > group_id | integer | not null default 0 > browser | character varying(8) | not null default 'OTHER'::character > varying ver | double precision | not null default 0::double > precision platform | character varying(8) | not null default > 'OTHER'::character varying time | integer | not null > default 0 > page | text | > type | integer | not null default 0 > user_id | integer | not null default 0 > > Now, the source code doesn't work any more. Here is the SQL - INSERT INTO > activity_log > (day,hour,group_id,browser,ver,platform,time,page,type,user_id) VALUES > (20100330,'16','','MOZILLA','5.0','Win','1269990036','/index.php','0',''); > and pgsql returned "ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: """. My > understanding is that if the value is null, then it should set both the > group_id=0 and user_id=0. But it didn't do it. With the old table, this > SQL statement would work. > > Any suggestions on what I need to do for the not null default values? > > I'm running on Postgres 8.3.8 and RHEL 3.9. > > Thanks > Mary Wang
8.3 tightened up type casting. You cannot INSERT a '0' without casting it to an integer i.e '0'::integer. -- Adrian Klaver adrian.kla...@gmail.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general