Re: [despammed] [SQL] rejecting characters in a field

2005-06-09 Thread Andreas Kretschmer
am 09.06.2005, um 12:36:31 +0530 mailte Kenneth Gonsalves folgendes: > hi > i have a table with a varchar field called 'name'. I want postgres to > reject any insert with characters defined as illegal characters, for > example '*/^#'. How do i do this? With a RULE or a TRIGGER. Regards, Andre

Re: [despammed] [SQL] rejecting characters in a field

2005-06-09 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Jun 9, 2005, at 4:18 PM, Andreas Kretschmer wrote: am 09.06.2005, um 12:36:31 +0530 mailte Kenneth Gonsalves folgendes: hi i have a table with a varchar field called 'name'. I want postgres to reject any insert with characters defined as illegal characters, for example '*/^#'. How do i do

[SQL] rejecting characters in a field

2005-06-09 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
hi i have a table with a varchar field called 'name'. I want postgres to reject any insert with characters defined as illegal characters, for example '*/^#'. How do i do this? -- regards kg http://www.livejournal.com/users/lawgon tally ho! http://avsap.sourceforge.net ಇಂಡ್ಲಿನಕ್ಸ வாழ்க! ---

Re: [SQL] rejecting characters in a field

2005-06-09 Thread Gnanavel Shanmugam
add check constraint with following pattern check(name !~ '[*/^#]') with regards, S.Gnanavel > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 12:36:31 +0530 > To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org > Subject: [SQL] rejecting characters in a fiel