Re: sql insert function

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:21:17 -0800 Chris Ochs <chris@paymentonline.com> wrote:

> The documentation doesn't have any examples of using an sql language
> function to do an insert, andI am at loss as to I am doing wrong here.
> The error I get trying to create the function is:  ERROR:  syntax error at
> or near "$1" at character 148

> CREATE FUNCTION taxship(varchar,integer,varchar,float,float) returns integer
> AS '
> insert into taxship(s_oid,order_id,mer_id,tax,shipping) values
> ('$1',$2,'$3',$4,$5);
> SELECT 1;
> ' LANGUAGE SQL;

i do believe you need to double up the single quotes inside the
function body, e.g.

(''$1'',$2,''$3'',$4,$5);

otherwise, the quote before the $1 ends up terminating the
function body.

richard
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