create function

Started by Pam Withnallabout 25 years ago3 messages
#1Pam Withnall
Pamw@zoom.com.au

I have installed plpgsql procedural language ok,
I could not get any functions to work.
I tried the most simple function as documented:
CREATE FUNCTION sptest3 (int4) RETURNS int4 AS
'BEGIN
RETURN $1+1;
END;' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';

When i call the function from sql
SELECT sptest3(4) AS x;
I get the error:

"NOTICE: plpgsql: ERROR during compile of sptest3 near line 1
"RROR: parse error at or near "

can anybody help?

#2Stephan Szabo
sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com
In reply to: Pam Withnall (#1)
Re: create function

What version are you using? On a 7.0.2 freebsd machine,
I cut and paste the below function and query and had
no problems.

Stephan Szabo
sszabo@bigpanda.com

On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Pam Withnall wrote:

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I have installed plpgsql procedural language ok,
I could not get any functions to work.
I tried the most simple function as documented:
CREATE FUNCTION sptest3 (int4) RETURNS int4 AS
'BEGIN
RETURN $1+1;
END;' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';

When i call the function from sql
SELECT sptest3(4) AS x;
I get the error:

"NOTICE: plpgsql: ERROR during compile of sptest3 near line 1
"RROR: parse error at or near "

can anybody help?

#3Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Pam Withnall (#1)
Re: create function

Pam Withnall <Pamw@zoom.com.au> writes:

When i call the function from sql
SELECT sptest3(4) AS x;
I get the error:

"NOTICE: plpgsql: ERROR during compile of sptest3 near line 1
"RROR: parse error at or near "

The message looks just like that, eh? I bet it's unhappy because your
function text contains DOS-style newlines (\r\n) not Unix-style (\n).

7.1 plpgsql will accept \r as whitespace, but current releases don't.
In the meantime, save your script in a not-so-Microsoft-oriented editor.

regards, tom lane