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Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:20:54 -0600
From: Roberto Mello <rmello@cc.usu.edu>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: extract and variables in PL/pgSQL
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Hi,

Someone in another list asked about this function. I'm not sure why it
doesn't work. What am I missing? 

CREATE FUNCTION zastras(timestamp) RETURNS integer AS '
declare
  w_temp1 alias for $1;
  w_result integer;
begin
  SELECT INTO w_result EXTRACT(epoch from timestamp w_temp1); 
  return w_result;

end;
' language 'plpgsql';

NOTICE:  Error occurred while executing PL/pgSQL function zastras
NOTICE:  line 5 at select into variables


Thanks,

-Roberto

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