Re: EXCEPTION clause not identified

Hi,

Probably you might be using reserved words (ip_address). Please try with out
using the reserved words.

Regards
Prashant Ranjalkar

On 5/14/07, Jasbinder Singh Bali <jsbali(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> In one of my trigger functions, i'm trying to catch invalid ip address
> exception
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION func_client_socket()
> RETURNS "trigger" AS
> $BODY$
> DECLARE
> ip_address_present int4;
> BEGIN
> ip_address_present = 1;
> SELECT inet(NEW.canonical_name);
> EXCEPTION WHEN invalid_text_representation THEN
> ip_address=0;
> END;
> $BODY$
> LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;
>
> when i run this function, it gives me the followin error
>
> ERROR: syntax error at or near "EXCEPTION" at character 1343
> which is the line where I have the EXCEPTION clause.
>
> Can anyone please tell me whats going wrong here?
>
> Thanks,
> ~Jas
>