Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:08:04 +0200
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
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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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