Thomas Guettler <hv@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am 13.04.2012 20:35, schrieb Scott Marlowe: >> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:16 AM, Thomas Guettler<hv@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I think it would be very good, if postgresql reports which column is too >>> small: >>> >>> Value to long for type character varying(1024) (message translated from >>> german to english) >>> >>> Is there a reason not to report the column name? >> >> What version of pg are you using? I think later versions do report the column. > > 9.1.3 > > postgres=# create table "foo" ("bar" varchar(1)); > CREATE TABLE > postgres=# insert into foo values ('asdf'); > ERROR: value too long for type character varying(1) > postgres=# select version(); Yeah, the same with 9.2dev, +1 for a feature request. Andreas -- Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. (Linus Torvalds) "If I was god, I would recompile penguin with --enable-fly." (unknown) Kaufbach, Saxony, Germany, Europe. N 51.05082°, E 13.56889° -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general