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From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
To: Erik Erkelens <erik_erkelens@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: CREATE SEQUENCE fails in plpgsql function
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On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Erik Erkelens wrote:

>         new_max_records ALIAS FOR $1;
>     BEGIN
>         DROP SEQUENCE my_sequence;
>         --CREATE SEQUENCE my_sequence MAXVALUE 4
> CYCLE;
>         CREATE SEQUENCE my_sequence MAXVALUE
> new_max_records CYCLE;

Most of the creates/drops/etc... don't directly work with
variables/arguments.  You can probably do this with execute
however.