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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Raymond C. Rodgers" <sinful622@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "unsupported format code: 36" in prepared statement with libpq-fe
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"Raymond C. Rodgers" <sinful622@gmail.com> writes:
> I haven't been working with libpq-fe for long (only the last month or 
> so) but I've had the good fortune of being able to figure out and solve 
> most problems I've encountered within a few minutes to an hour, but this 
> one is different.

I think you're going to kick yourself:

>          PQexecPrepared(DB,"insertData",12,value,format,length,1);

You've given "format" and "length" in the wrong order, so it's trying
to interpret some field length as a format code.

			regards, tom lane


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