Using this:
Insert text with single quotes in PostgreSQL
I run on Postgres version 9.4.3 with command sql after
insert into test values (1,$$user's log$$);
Postgres returns error message
ERROR: 42601: Syntax error at or near "s"
Related
I have the following code:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS pltest;
CREATE TABLE pltest (x jsonb);
DO $$
DECLARE startdate text := to_char(current_date - 1, 'YYYYMMDD');
BEGIN
EXECUTE format(
'COPY pltest FROM PROGRAM ''curl "https://example.com/events/start_date=%sT000000Z"''',
startdate
);
END
$$ ;
It basically imports the URL with a parameterized COPY statement so it always imports the data of the last 24 hours, it runs perfectly in SQL shell, but when i tried adding a pgagent job with that code, pgagent returns "syntax error near DECLARE".
PostgreSQL version: 13.3
PgAgent version: 13
This code looks correct. It fails with expected error.
ERROR: invalid input syntax for type json
DETAIL: Token "<" is invalid.
CONTEXT: JSON data, line 1: <...
COPY pltest, line 1, column x: "<!doctype html>"
SQL statement "COPY pltest FROM PROGRAM 'curl "https://example.com/events /start_date=20210526T000000Z"'"
PL/pgSQL function inline_code_block line 5 at EXECUTE
Maybe your client breaks source code, or maybe your Postgres is too old.
PostgreSQL syntax problem.
Query below will run but result is:
ERROR: out of memory for query result
SELECT
AD.ADDRESS_DETAIL_PID as ADDRESS_DETAIL_PID,
AD.STREET_LOCALITY_PID as STREET_LOCALITY_PID,
AD.LOCALITY_PID as LOCALITY_PID,
AD.BUILDING_NAME as BUILDING_NAME
When the query is amended to:
set FETCH_COUNT=1000
SELECT
AD.ADDRESS_DETAIL_PID as ADDRESS_DETAIL_PID,
AD.STREET_LOCALITY_PID as STREET_LOCALITY_PID,
AD.LOCALITY_PID as LOCALITY_PID,
AD.BUILDING_NAME as BUILDING_NAME
the result is:
ERROR: syntax error at or near "SELECT" LINE 3: SELECT
^ SQL state: 42601 Character: 23
except that when a colon ; is included at the end the rssult is:
ERROR: unrecognized configuration parameter "fetch_count" SQL state:
42704
I am seeking help with the syntax.
FETCH_COUNT is a psql interval variable and is not executed on the server.
SET is a SQL command that's executed on the server and cannot be used for setting psql internal variables. use \set instead.
\set FETCH_COUNT 1000
While trying to run PL/pgSQL via JDBC driver (postgresql-9.4.1211.jre7.jar; using ANT) I get following error: ERROR: syntax error at or near "$"
Is there any way howto fix this via setting JDBC properties or changing the query of PL/pgSQL?
query:
DO $$
BEGIN
CREATE SEQUENCE id_sequence_SEQ OWNED BY id_sequence.id;
EXCEPTION WHEN duplicate_table
THEN
END
$$
LANGUAGE plpgsql;
error:
org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: syntax error at or near "$"
Position: 5
at org.postgresql.core.v3.QueryExecutorImpl.receiveErrorResponse(QueryExecutorImpl.java:2458)
at org.postgresql.core.v3.QueryExecutorImpl.processResults(QueryExecutorImpl.java:2158)
at org.postgresql.core.v3.QueryExecutorImpl.execute(QueryExecutorImpl.java:291)
at org.postgresql.jdbc.PgStatement.executeInternal(PgStatement.java:432)
at org.postgresql.jdbc.PgStatement.execute(PgStatement.java:358)
at org.postgresql.jdbc.PgStatement.executeWithFlags(PgStatement.java:305)
at org.postgresql.jdbc.PgStatement.executeCachedSql(PgStatement.java:291)
at org.postgresql.jdbc.PgStatement.executeWithFlags(PgStatement.java:269)
at org.postgresql.jdbc.PgStatement.execute(PgStatement.java:265)
I tried executing a DO statement with JDBC and it works just fine.
There must be something weird in your statement. Try and log the statement by setting log_min_error_statement and log_min_messages to error. Execute the statement, then look at the message in the PostgreSQL log file. It should contain the statement that was actually executed. Examine it for weird characters and other strangeness.
Please also note that there is a syntax error in you PL/pgSQL: there must be something between THEN and END. For a no-op, use the statement NULL;.
I perform the same sql scripts on two server with different postgres versions. The first one has postgres 9.4.4 (this works fine) and the other one 9.5 (this throws an exception) installed.
UPDATE archived_invoice SET encrypted_xml
= encrypt(xml::bytea, 'MySuperSecretKey'::bytea, 'aes-ecb/pad:pkcs')
The exception:
Caused by: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: invalid input syntax for type bytea
SQL Status:22P02
Are there any differences between these two postgresql versions?
PostgreSQL will throw an ERROR: invalid input syntax for type bytea at you if the text you're casting into a bytea contains an invalid escape sequence:
# select '\i is not a valid escape sequence'::bytea;
ERROR: invalid input syntax for type bytea
LINE 1: select '\i is not a valid escape sequence'::bytea;
I'm guessing your "xml" column contains or may contain some backslashes. This is fine for XML and text columns, but presents an issue when casting to bytea.
You will need to escape the backslashes:
UPDATE archived_invoice SET encrypted_xml
= encrypt(
replace(xml, '\', '\\')::bytea,
'MySuperSecretKey'::bytea,
'aes-ecb/pad:pkcs'
)
I have a CSV file from which I am trying to use Postgres COPY command in order to populate a table from that CSV file. One of the table columns NEXT_VISIT is of a date data_type. Some of the corresponding fields in the CSV file which are supposed to go into this date column have null values.
The Copy command am running is like so:
COPY "VISIT_STAGING_TABLE" from E'C:\\Users\\Sir Codealot\\Desktop\\rufijihdss-2007-2010\\rufijihdss\\VISIT_TEST.CSV' CSV HEADER
When I run this command I get the error:
ERROR: invalid input syntax for type date: ""
CONTEXT: COPY VISIT_STAGING_TABLE, line 2, column NEXT_VISIT: ""
********** Error **********
ERROR: invalid input syntax for type date: ""
SQL state: 22007
Context: COPY VISIT_STAGING_TABLE, line 2, column NEXT_VISIT: ""
How can I run the copy command and get Postgres to accept that some of the fields in the CSV file corresponding to NEXT_VISIT have values ""?
Add WITH NULL AS '' to your command (COPY expects NULLs to be represented as "\N" (backslash-N) by default).
COPY "VISIT_STAGING_TABLE" from E'C:\\Users\\Sir Codealot\\Desktop\\rufijihdss-2007-2010\\rufijihdss\\VISIT_TEST.CSV' WITH CSV HEADER NULL AS ''
More details here: postgresql COPY
I was having the exact same problem, and what solved it for me was to use the statement WITH NULL ''. It is important not to have a space between the apostrophes.
I originally used the statement WITH NULL ' ' and got the same error message you did (ERROR: syntax error at or near "WITH NULL").
But when I eliminated the space between the apostrophes it worked.