Justin Bailey <jgbailey@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Really? Works for me, in everything back to 7.3. > If s was automatically truncated, the insert would succeed, but it > fails with a "value too long" error. Oh, I thought the failure was the behavior you wanted. There's no automatic truncation here --- perhaps putting an exception block around it would be the way to go? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general