Re: column insert

On Thu, 2 May 2002, P. Jourdan wrote:

> I have to insert 2 columns into an existing database that seems to be
> altered after a restore. I do not know what datatype should be entered for
> "path" and for "referer". The others are int4 and timestamptz for when_stamp.
> Here is the code:
> /*
>       * Statistics: write page view
>       */
>      if($loglevel>=1) {
>     sqlquery("
>         insert into visits (session_id,page_id,when_stamp,path,referer)
>         select session_id,$page_id,'now','$REQUEST_URI','$HTTP_REFERER'
>         from session
>         where hash='$sid'");
>      }

You're probably best off using text type.  Try this:

alter table visits add path text;
alter table visits add referer text;

That should get ya there.