Re: Calling plSQL functions

From: Lonnie Cumberland <lonnie_cumberland(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Calling plSQL functions
Date: 2001-04-12 14:16:01
Message-ID: 20010412141601.58926.qmail@web12506.mail.yahoo.com
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I solved the problem Josh.

It had to do with the "select ..." statement in the function and also I needed
to include a "record" variable so the the "select into " could act upon.

Thanks for the help anyway.

Cheers,
Lonnie

--- Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> Lonnie,
>
> It may be that you have not linked the PL/pgSQL language in Postgres.
>
> It may be that you are putting a SELECT statement inside your function.
>
> It is hard to tell, becuase I am unclear on the problem youa re having,
> exactly. Here's some terminology to help clarify:
>
> PL/pgSQL is the extension of SQL written by Jan Wieck used to write
> functions in PostgreSQL.
>
> PSQL is the command-line interface tool for the PostgreSQL database.
>
> PL/SQL is a procedure-writing language for Oracle which does not work on
> PostgreSQL at all, although it was the inspiration for PL/pgSQL.
>
> Please re-state you difficulty, and I can probably help you.
>
> -Josh Berkus
>
>
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