It would have been helpful if you posted the schema for the table, but from what you wrote, I'll assume you have a table that's defined something like: 

create table tbl_name (
    product_id      int,
    model_number    int,
    description     char[]
);

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If your description is really a "character array", may I suggest that you change it to type "text" instead.

Your new table would look like: 

create table new_tbl_name (
    product_id      int,
    model_number    int,
    description     text
);

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Your array problems should go away, since you're not even dealing with an array anymore.

Just for your information, if you want to put data into a column that is an array of another type, you have to use the { } notation. It's kind of like the [ ] array constructor in perl.

Here's an example: (Assume we're using the tbl_name table); 

my $text = join('', <STDIN>);
my $pg_array = 
    join  ('',
    map   { "'$_', " } 
    split ('', $text));

$pg_array =~ s/, $//;
$pg_array = "{ $pg_array }";

$dbh->do("
    insert into tbl_name (product_id, model_number, description)
    values ($prod_id, $mod_num, $pg_array)
");

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Really, though -- don't use character arrays for text. Just use a text field.

In reply to Re: DBD::Pg INSERT enlightenment by beppu
in thread DBD::Pg INSERT enlightenment by penguinfuz

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