From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: failed to execute the psql case statement which has the function
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"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
> But the error fragment shown suggests that the query shouldn't be expecting
> a column name (contrary to my earlier point), so we are back to having to
> see the entire function definition (or a reproducible example) to provide
> an answer.  Spelling typo comes to mind.

I'm wondering if there's an actual function involved at all.
Maybe the OP is just writing this in a psql script and wanting
to substitute a psql variable.  In that case something like
:'variable' might be the solution.

Bottom line is the same though: we need to see a lot more context
than we've been shown.

			regards, tom lane