Re: neooffice form problem with numerics

Thanks!!! Worked like a charm!! I was banging my head for days trying
to figure it out.

Reuben

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Kris Jurka <books@ejurka.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Reuben Cummings wrote:
>
>> Hi, I am trying to use a neooffice form to insert numerical values
>> into a postgres database and get the following error:
>>
>> ESTERROR:  42804: column "back_load" is of type numeric but expression
>> is of type character varying at character 35
>
> Neooffice is apparently calling setString for the numeric parameter.  The
> driver assumes this means it is really a string type and the backend gets
> the type mismatch error.  Neooffice should really be calling setBigDecimal
> for a numeric expression, but you can work around this by providing the
> driver with an instruction to avoid specifying a type for values provided by
> setString.  Use the URL parameter "stringtype=unspecified" when connecting
> to the database and that should hopefully work.
>
> Kris Jurka
>