From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Yusuf <yusufad@myrealbox.com>
To: PgSql-SQL <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Can't convert numeric to_char() in catenate function
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:04:00 -0700
Message-ID: <200310161604.00195.josh@agliodbs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031016222416.672C5D1B4E8@svr1.postgresql.org>
References: <20031016222416.672C5D1B4E8@svr1.postgresql.org>
Yusuf,
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION "verticat" (text, numeric) RETURNS text AS '
> SELECT CASE WHEN $2 IS NULL THEN $1
> WHEN $1 IS NULL OR $1 = ''''
> THEN to_char($2,'999999999D99')
> ELSE $1 || '', '' || to_char($2,'99999999D99')
You need to escape your single quotes by double-quoting them, eg.:
to_char($2,''99999999D99'')
-Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
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