Re: extract and variables in PL/pgSQL

On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 08:20:55AM -0400, Jan Wieck wrote:
> >
> > NOTICE: Error occurred while executing PL/pgSQL function zastras
> > NOTICE: line 5 at select into variables
>
> First you're missing the error message, which should read
> something like
>
> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "$1"
>
> Doesn't help much here, but it is usually a good idea to
> include error messages in reports like this.

Sorry Jan, I meant to paste that.

> It works if you leave out the keyword "timestamp" writing
>
> SELECT INTO w_result EXTRACT(epoch from w_temp1);
>
> because the variable w_temp1 is known to be of type timestamp
> already and therefore the a_expr node on the right hand side
> of from is valid.

Oh, okay. Thanks.

-Roberto

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