On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 11:55:58PM -0400, Jasbinder Bali wrote: > I'm using ECPG and trying to do follwoing insert in one of the talbes. > > insert into raw_email ( id , raw_email ) values ( 1 , :ch); > > ch is an array and defined as follows: > > EXEC SQL BEGIN DECLARE SECTION; > char ch[MSG_LEN]; > EXEC SQL END DECLARE SECTION; > > contents of array ch is actually a parsed raw email that i've attached > herewith. > > I get the following error when the insert statement is hit: > > [2446]: ECPGexecute line 97: Error: ERROR: array value must start with "{" > or dimension information. What's the table definition for raw_email? Based on the error it looks like one of the columns you're inserting is defined as an array. I'm guessing you did something like this: CREATE TABLE raw_email ( id integer, raw_email char[] ); When you should have done this: CREATE TABLE raw_email ( id integer, raw_email text -- or varchar ); Is my guess correct? -- Michael Fuhr