Subject: plpythonu strange syntax error
From: Michele Bendazzoli <mickymouse@mickymouse.it>
To: pgsql <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
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Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:38:17 +0100
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I try to create a trivial (for testing purpouse) function with the
plpythonu language in postgresql 8.0 but when I try to utilize it the
postgres refuse to compile it for a sintax error:
'ERROR: plpython: could not compile function ''myfunc''
DETAIL: exceptions.SyntaxError: invalid syntax (line 2)'

-- Function: myfunc(text)

-- DROP FUNCTION myfunc(text);

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION myfunc(text)
 RETURNS text AS
$BODY$c=1 
c = 2$BODY$
 LANGUAGE 'plpythonu' VOLATILE;
ALTER FUNCTION myfunc(text) OWNER TO postgres;

I.e. every time I try to add a second line to myfunc (I'm not able to
write useful function made by single line of code!:) postgres give me
the previous error. In fact if I delete the second line ('c=2', the
$BODYs text is automatically created by the pgadmin III):

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION myfunc(text)
 RETURNS text AS
'c=1'
 LANGUAGE 'plpythonu' VOLATILE;
ALTER FUNCTION myfunc(text) OWNER TO postgres;

all works as expected.

Is it my fault or there is a bug that blocks the possibility to write
function with more than one line of code?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

ciao, Michele