Re: need some help with pl-pgsql

On Tuesday 23 December 2008 1:04:49 pm justin wrote:
> have a function written in pgsql   it runs just fine, except its doing
> something really stupid.
>
> The function runs just fine till this select statement
>
> Select (wo_wipvalue/wo_qtyord)
>          into _TotalCost
>          from wo
>          where wo_id = pWoid ;
>
> This goes to the work order header table to gets the current value
> divided by current qty thats been completed so far, then sticks the
> value into _TotalCost variable based on the parameter passed into
> variable pWoid.
>
> problem is it returns NULL  which is impossible as i can manually run
> the select statement and get the $1.589445
>
> I have no idea how to fix this problem going forward???
>
>
> and the database is 8.3.5 running Ubuntu 8.0 lts

Would help to see the whole function. Also make sure you did not name one of
the variables the same as a column name, this will confuse plpgsql.  Are you
using the same value for wo_id in the function as in the manual select
statement?

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Adrian Klaver
aklaver@comcast.net