Re: inserting boolean values in dynamic queries

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Raphael Bauduin" <rblists@gmail.com> writes:
>> EXECUTE 'UPDATE tbl SET '
>>         || quote_ident(colname)
>>         || ' = '
>>         || quote_literal(newvalue)
>>         || ' WHERE key = '
>>         || quote_literal(keyvalue);
>
>> It works fine, except when I want to include a boolean value: the cast
>> of newvalue from boolean to text causes problem.
>
> What problem?  'true' and 'false' are accepted as input for boolean
> AFAICS.
>


yes, but I have problems to use them to build the query passed to execute.
For example, working on this table
create table test(b_val bool);

I want to create a function that I cal call as   select test_bool(true)
and that will insert an entry in this test table.

Below are several attemps, all unsuccessful. The way I've made it work
it by accepting a char as input, t or f:   create or replace function test_bool(val char(1)) returns void as $$


create or replace function test_bool(val bool) returns void as $$   BEGIN       RAISE INFO 'insert into test(b_val)
values(''%'')', val;       execute 'insert into test (b_val) values ('|| val || ')';   END 
$$
language plpgsql;
--> ERROR:  array value must start with "{" or dimension information


create or replace function test_bool(val bool) returns void as $$   BEGIN       RAISE INFO 'insert into test(b_val)
values(''%'')', val;       execute 'insert into test (b_val) values ('|| val::text || ')';   END 
$$
language plpgsql;
--> ERROR:  cannot cast type boolean to text


create or replace function test_bool(val bool) returns void as $$   BEGIN       RAISE INFO 'insert into test(b_val)
values(''%'')', val;       execute 'insert into test (b_val) values ('|| quote_literal(val) || ')';   END 
$$
language plpgsql;
--> ERROR:  function quote_literal(boolean) does not exist


I guess I'm missing something....

Thanks.

Raphaël



>                        regards, tom lane
>






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