Re: If Statement

Perhaps what you actually want is the CASE function - it performs what most
people with previous programming experience would expect from IF

Cheers,
-p


-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-novice-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-novice-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Greg Quinn
Sent: Monday, 5 February 2007 05:16
To: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
Subject: [NOVICE] If Statement

For some reason I cannot get an IF statement to work in PostGreSQL, even
though I am doing it in the format the manual tells me to...
Here is my query...

IF 1 = 1 THEN
    update contacts set deleted = TRUE
END IF;

I get the error ERROR:  syntax error at or near "IF" at character 1

I am using EMS's PostGreSQL Manager for windows.

Thanks


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