Susan,
> which seems to me to be consistent with the instructions given in the
> Reference manual. However, when trying to create this function I receive
> the errors:
>
> parser: parse error at or near ";"
>
> parser: parse error at or near "orderinsert"
What version of Postgres are you using? Create function syntax has changed
through the various versions.
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