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Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:03:00 -0400
From: Emi Lu <emilu@encs.concordia.ca>
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Subject: Re: ERROR:  malformed record literal: "",DETAIL:  Missing left
	parenthesis?
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> A question about: ERROR: malformed record literal: ""
> DETAIL: Missing left parenthesis.
>
> Can someone tell me what cause the error?
>
> ========================
> Table z_drop;
> Column | Type
> -------------+------------------------
> run_date | character varying(128)
> adm_year | character varying(4)
> adm_sess | character varying(1)
> faculty | character varying(128)
> ac_cycle | character varying(128)
> deg_code | character varying(128)
> discipline | character varying(128)
> thesis | character varying(128)
> elig_stype | character varying(128)
> stud_source | character varying(128)
> applied | numeric
> reviewed | numeric
> accepted | numeric
> confirmed | numeric
> registered | numeric
> hold | numeric
> forward | numeric
> refused | numeric
> cancelled | numeric
> other | numeric
> pending | numeric
>
>
> PREPARE test(z_drop) AS INSERT INTO z_drop VALUES ($1, $2, $3, $4, $5,
> $6, $7, $8, $9, $10, $11, $12, $13, $14, $15, $16, $17, $18, $19, $20,
> $21) ;
I have fixed it.

It should not be z_drop, it should be real column names.

The mailing list email appears so slow :-( Only after 4 hours it show!

Emi


>
> EXECUTE test('', '1', '1', '1', '1', '1', '1', '1', '1', '', 1, 1, '1',
> '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0') ;
>
>
>
>
> Thank you,
> Emi
>


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Emi Lu, ENCS, Concordia University, Montreal H3G 1M8
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