From: A. Kretschmer <andreas.kretschmer@schollglas.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: error on line 1 trying to execute a script using psql
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:08:04 +0200
Message-ID: <20100622050803.GA13356@a-kretschmer.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ocf42h7r.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de>
References: <AANLkTikpLjmRR79VVEMH49RZTHzgEJcS-6sclTSmYP4O@mail.gmail.com>
<m3ocf42h7r.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de>
In response to Tim Landscheidt :
> Steven Dahlin <pgdb.sldahlin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am attempting to generate a temporary function to execute some dml with
> > the following script:
>
> > create or replace function setuplicense() returns integer as $$
> > declare
> > hwcustid integer := 0;
> > retval integer := 0;
> > begin
> > insert into license.customer
> > ( customer_id ) values ( hwcustid );
> > commit;
> > return retval;
> > end;
> > $$
> > LANGUAGE plpgsql;
>
> > select setuplicense();
>
> > When running this with psql I get the following:
>
> > Error: syntax error at or near "create"
>
> > Does anyone have a suggestion as to what is causing this?
>
> Your editor prepends the file with a byte-order mark ("BOM")
> that PostgreSQL chokes on (bug #5398). This will be fixed in
> 9.0 (cf.
> <URI:http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/release-9-0.html#AEN99331;);
> until then you either have to configure your editor not to
> save the BOM or chop off the first three bytes yourself
> (with tail, sed, Perl & Co.).
Additional error: you can't do a COMMIT inside a function.
Regards, Andreas
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