From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Shavonne Marietta Wijesinghe <shavonne.marietta@studioform.it>
Cc: Teemu Torma <teemu@torma.org>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: duplicate key violates unique constraint
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:03:25 -0300
Message-ID: <20080226170325.GJ5763@alvh.no-ip.org> (raw)
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Shavonne Marietta Wijesinghe wrote:
> I wrote the query in the SQL windows provided by the pgadmin.
That SQL window only executes SQL, so you can't use PL/pgSQL commands on
it. PL/pgSQL can only be used in the context of a PL/pgSQL function, so
you need to do CREATE FUNCTION to do that.
If you want to use the SQL window you could use SAVEPOINT and ROLLBACK TO.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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