Re: Truncation error

terry(at)greatgulfhomes(dot)com wrote:
> I upgraded to the new database, 7.2.1 from 7.0
>
> Things are working good, except one bad hitch. If I try to insert 75
> characters into 60 character field I get:
> ERROR: value too long for type character(60).
>
> Is there a flag somewhere I can set to make the database go back to the old
> behavior of blindly truncating the values upon insertion?

No, sorry, the SQL standard requires the error.

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