Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62405&edit=1
ID: 62405
User updated by: floriparob at gmail dot com
Reported by: floriparob at gmail dot com
Summary: Null values for insert/update statements
-Status: Feedback
+Status: Open
Type: Bug
Package: PostgreSQL related
Operating System: Debian 64bit 3.2.0-2
-PHP Version: 5.4.4
+PHP Version: 5.4.0.3
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
Hi Rasmus, not using Hibernate or anything similar.
The class has getter's and setter's, constructor, etc. and methods for fetching,
inserting and updating rows.
$query = "UPDATE table_a SET . . . etc.";
$result = pg_query($dbconn, $query);
if ( !$result ) { return FALSE; } else { return TRUE; }
Works fine when all variables contain not null values.
How do you set a column to null if there is no bug in pg_query?
I can rewrite and used prepared statements but if the array of data for the
placeholders contains a null value for one of the columns, is it going to be
set
to null?
Previous Comments:
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[2012-06-25 15:30:50] [email protected]
What is generating your query? PHP's pg_query() call just takes a query string.
It doesn't take an object and translate object properties like you seem to
imply,
so it sounds like you have a middle layer that is doing this and it sounds like
the bug is in that middle layer, not in PHP.
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[2012-06-24 22:34:39] floriparob at gmail dot com
Description:
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Actually using PHP 5.4.0.3 but this was not in the drop down list above.
Null is a perfectly valid value for a column. However, PHP fails to submit the
correct values when it builds the SQL query and submits it to the postmaster.
I don't have this problem with Java and the Postgres jdbc driver.
Consider the following DDL:-
create table table_a (
tablea_id serial not null primary key,
col_a varchar(20),
col_b integer,
col_c boolean default false);
In my class for table_a I have:-
update table_a set col_a = 'this->colA', col_b = this->colB,
col_c = this->colC where tablea_id = $something;
In my action I might set a value -- setcolA('some value');
If this->colB IS NULL, then PHP doesn't detect this fact, generates the
following SQL which fails because of syntax errors.
update table_a set col_a = 'some value', col_b = , col_c = where tablea_id = 3;
It should generate:-
update table_a set col_a = 'some value', col_b = null, col_c = null where
tablea_id = 3;
The failure to detect boolean's and treat them appropriately is another pain in
the neck. You are using pg_query, you KNOW it's a Postgres database, you should
KNOW that Postgres creates boolean columns as char(1), and that it uses a 't'
to represent "true" and a 'f' to represent "false".
To overcome this failure I had to do the following in my class:-
$my_bool = this->colC? 't' : 'f';
and then use '$my_bool' instead of this->colC in the insert and update
statements.
Imagine if you had dozens of boolean type columns in a table. A nightmare. It
is quite common in applications where users belong to groups and a group has a
set of privileges, and those privileges are usually held as boolean value's.
---
>From manual page:
>http://www.php.net/function.pg-query#refsect1-function.pg-query-description
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Actual result:
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[Thu Jun 21 02:50:31 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: pg_query():
Query failed: ERROR: syntax error at or near ","\nLINE 5:
'', 'Kemly plus vistors to look at house', , 0,\n
^ in
/var/www/timemanager.info/public_html/classes/AppointMents.php on line 133,
referer: http://dev.timemanager.info/addchgappnts.html
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