[R] RODBC: sqlUpdate doesn't handle properly POSIXct field?

[Mikhail Titov]

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Hello all!

Can someone confirm whether there is a bug or not?

I was trying to use sqlUpdate in place of sqlSave as data set I import has
duplications. However I get errors while using fast=FALSE argument to safely
update/ignore duplicates:

Error while executing the query[RODBC] ERROR: Could not SQLExecDirect
'UPDATE "data" SET "logger"=1, "value"=0.0321584 WHERE "time"=2008-09-22
13:15:00'
Error in sqlUpdate(con2, na.omit(dat), "data", fast = FALSE) : 
  42601 7 ERROR: syntax error at or near "13";

It looks like POSIXct class is not escaped properly.

I have R 2.12.2 running on Windows XP 32 bit, and I’m using PostgreSQL
database. Column time is supposedly of ‘timestamp without time zone’.

Here is what I have in the data frame I’m pushing to DB:

> class(dat$time)
[1] "POSIXct" "POSIXt"

Mikhail

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> Subject: [R] RODBC: sqlUpdate doesn't handle properly POSIXct field?
> 
> Hello all!
> 
> 
> 
> Can someone confirm whether there is a bug or not?
> 
> 
> 
> I was trying to use sqlUpdate in place of sqlSave as data set I import has
> duplications. However I get errors while using fast=FALSE argument to
> safely update/ignore duplicates:
> 
> 
> 
> Error while executing the query[RODBC] ERROR: Could not SQLExecDirect
> 'UPDATE "data" SET "logger"=1, "value"=0.0321584 WHERE "time"=2008-09-22
> 13:15:00'
> 
> Error in sqlUpdate(con2, na.omit(dat), "data", fast = FALSE) :
> 
>   42601 7 ERROR: syntax error at or near "13";
> 
> 
> 
> It looks like POSIXct class is not escaped properly.
> 
> 
> 
> I have R 2.12.2 running on Windows XP 32 bit, and Ib