Re: Variable array sizes with PQexecParams

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

"Garcia, Joshua" <Joshua(dot)Garcia(at)xerox(dot)com> writes:
> I want to use PQexecParams to insert into a field that takes an array of
> varchars.  I tried something like:
> INSERT INTO table1(column1) VALUES ('{$1,$2}')
> But, this just inserts {$1,$2} into the field.

Well, yeah.  If it did anything else that'd be a catastrophic bug.

Try something like

INSERT INTO table1(column1) VALUES (ARRAY[$1,$2])

For varchar this will probably work as-is, for other datatypes you might
need to add explicit casts to determine the array element types, eg

INSERT INTO table1(column1) VALUES (ARRAY[$1::integer,$2::integer])

Another possibility is to treat the whole array value as one parameter:

INSERT INTO table1(column1) VALUES ($1)

where the value of $1 is like "{foo,bar}", but this gets into having to
quote the data values correctly to make them valid array elements.  The
first way is probably safer.

			regards, tom lane