From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Fred Blaise <fred(dot)blaise(at)excilan(dot)com> |
Cc: | John DeSoi <desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: pg/plsql question |
Date: | 2005-03-15 15:34:52 |
Message-ID: | 6452.1110900892@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Fred Blaise <fred(dot)blaise(at)excilan(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 09:58 -0500, John DeSoi wrote:
>> raise log ''t is %'', t;
> Yes, that's what I thought... but oddly nothing gets written.
Fred, your original example made it look like you were writing "
(one double quote mark) where what you need to write is ''
(two single quote marks). The reason is that you are trying to
embed a single quote mark in the value of a string literal.
(If you are using PG 8.0 I'd suggest adopting the dollar-quoting
style for entering the function body, instead.)
Another problem I noticed is you were leaving off required
statement-ending semicolons, which could also prevent the plpgsql
parser from recognizing the RAISE command properly.
You might try something simpler just to get your feet wet:
create function hello_world(text) returns text as '
begin
raise notice ''I got %'', $1;
return $1;
end' language plpgsql;
select hello_world('Hi there!');
Once you get past that you'll have some idea about the quote marks
anyway ...
regards, tom lane
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