Damn bug!

Bernie Huang <bernie.huang@ec.gc.ca>

From: Bernie Huang <bernie.huang@ec.gc.ca>
To: PGSQL-BUGS <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org>, PHP list <php-general@lists.php.net>
Date: 2000-07-20T19:13:52Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs

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Hi,

Sorry for the subject, but it is driving me crazy that I spend my entire
morning searching for this little bug.  =(

Well, I found it.

I have a field using array (eg; col1 text[]) in Postgres, and it's a
list of attributes.  (eg; {"hi","hello","whatever","Empty",...})

When I tried to update elements in the array via PHP script,

$query = "update table
          set col1[1]='$var1',
              col1[2]='$var2',
              ...
              col1[4]='$var4'";

it worked alright; however, when it came to the word 'Empty', it just
wouldn't update. So, after a lot of struggle... )xp ... I finally
replaced the word 'Empty' with 'None' or something alike, and it worked!

Although this is a rare case, I thought I would just share this with you
so you won't get tripped over it.  Don't know if it's a PHP bug or a
Postgres bug!


- Bernie