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Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:17:41 -0700
From: Bricklen Anderson <BAnderson@PresiNET.com>
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To: David Hofmann <mor4321@hotmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Tigger
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David Hofmann wrote:
> I've look throught the docs and from what I can see the bellow code
> should work, however I keep getting the error:
> 
> ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "$" at character 53
> 
> CREATE FUNCTION session_update() RETURNS trigger AS $session_update$
> BEGIN
>     -- Check date exists
>     IF NEW.stamp_lastupdate IS NULL THEN
>         NEW.stamp_lastupdate := 'now';
>     END IF;
>     RETURN NEW;
> END;
> 
> $session_update$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;
> 
> CREATE TRIGGER session_update BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE ON sessions FOR
> EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE session_update();
> 
> 
> Any help or suggestions of websites I should read would be appercated.
> 
> David

Which version of postgresql are you using? I don't believe that the "$" quoting
was available in older versions than 8 (or late 7?).

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