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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]