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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
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To: Wim <wdh@belbone.be>, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Trying to write a function...
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 11:26:27 -0700
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Wim,

> CREATE FUNCTION f_addrtr (varchar(16),varchar(32)) RETURNS bool AS '
> DECLARE
> index int4;
> BEGIN
> index :=3D 'nextval('s_routerid')';
> INSERT INTO t_routers VALUES (index, $1, $2);
> RETURN 1;
> END;'
> LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';
>=20
> What am I doing wrong?

Bad quotes, bad data type usage.  Change as follows:

CREATE FUNCTION f_addrtr (varchar(16),varchar(32)) RETURNS bool AS '
DECLARE
index int4;
BEGIN
index :=3D nextval(''s_routerid'');
 INSERT INTO t_routers VALUES (index, $1, $2);
 RETURN TRUE;
END;'
 LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';


--=20
-Josh Berkus
 Aglio Database Solutions
 San Francisco