Re: Problems with PLPGSQL

Hi Alex,

If you want to achieve say '360 min' as the string you will have use
concatenation:

FOR myRec IN SELECT * FROM myTable WHERE job_end + ($1::text || '' Min'') >
now LOOP

The syntax is SQL rather than PHP-like.

Rgds,

Jason

On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 03:13 pm, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a problem with quoting  in one of my functions:
>
> now TIMESTAMP := ''now'';
> FOR myRec IN SELECT * FROM myTable WHERE job_end + ''360 Min'' > now LOOP
>
> I want to replace the 360 with the contents of a passed value
>
> but for some reason I can't quote it. ... job_end + ''$1 Min'' does not
> work.
>
> Could anyone help me out here ?
>
>
> On the subject:
> The whole quoting in PLPGSQL seems to create many people a headache...
> is there any plan to make it a bit more user friendly?
>
> Thanks
> Alx
>
>
>
>
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