Re: Bizzare plpgsql error

Arg, yes, that's exactly it.

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 03:57:12PM -0700, Stephan Szabo wrote:
>
> On Tue, 27 May 2003, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>
> > I'm getting this error trying to run a function:
> >
> > usps=# select process_zip4();
> > WARNING: Error occurred while executing PL/pgSQL function process_zip4
> > WARNING: line 55 at SQL statement
> > ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "$1" at character 14
> >
> > The relivant code is:
> >
> > IF z.record_type_code = ''P'' THEN
> > INSERT INTO po_box
> > SELECT z4.zip4_id
> > , ....
> >
> > The INSERT INTO is line 55. What makes no sense is that it works fine if
> > I change the name of the table from po_box to anything else.
>
> Do you happen to have a declared variable named po_box? IIRC
> plpgsql gets confused sometimes when things like that are done.
>
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