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From: chester c young <chestercyoung@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: cannot create function that uses variable table name
To: Matthew Nuzum <cobalt@bearfruit.org>
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--- Matthew Nuzum <cobalt@bearfruit.org> wrote:
> I thought I would be crafty and devise a function that would always
> return the highest numbered item in the table.  But it doesn’t work. 
> It always gives me a parse error at $1.  Here’s the function:

build the query as a string and execute it.

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