Greetings!
Would anyone mind educating me about how to properly
insert null values into a postgresql float4 field
using perl DBI? I keep getting 0 in the field, instead
of a NULL value as I would expect.
Background:
I'm using placeholders with DBI to read in data from a
file. I do this a lot, as in this example:
my $sth = $dbh->prepare_cached( q{
INSERT INTO mytable (field1, field2, field3) VALUES (?, ?, ?) }) ;
open (FH, "< $path") or die "Unable to open $path: $!"; while (<FH>) { chop; my
($field1,$field2, $field3) = split /,/; $sth->execute($field1, $field2, $field3); } close
(FH);
The sample file I'm reading has some Null values
and looks like this:
1,2,3
4,,6
2,,6
7,8,
12,13,14
However, these values turn up in postgres table as 0, not NULL.
When I do a select on the data read in with DBI, I get:
1,2,3
4,0,6
2,0,6
7,8,0
12,13,14
Would anyone mind telling me what I'm missing and/or point me to
an example of how to do this properly. I'm using DBD::Pg 0.93 and
postgres 7.02 on both NT and Linux. Thanks!
Dan