help with sintaxis of quotes on function - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Ernesto Freyre
Subject help with sintaxis of quotes on function
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Msg-id 000a01c167a8$3b430860$a164a8c0@mihost
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Responses Re: help with sintaxis of quotes on function  (Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>)
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Dear Sirs:
 
Please I am attempting implement a function that update a column to current time + X seconds
 
So the query involved looks like:
 
update mytable set mytime=now+'X seconds';
 
Here X is a integer value,
 
Now I need implement this on my function, But I have problems at implement this at quotes, e.g. my function could looks like:
 
CREATE    FUNCTION addtime(integer) RETURNS INTEGER AS '
DECLARE
   additional ALIAS FOR $1;
BEGIN
  update mytable set mytime=now()+''additional seconds'';
END;
'
return 1;
LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';
 
I know probably this doesn't  works, justly I have doubts about how to implement this since I want the funtion takes the variable additional , not the string 'additional', What I should to consider? I read the documentation on pqsql language aboute using quotes but none case is resemblance to my case.
 
Can someone tell me an orientation about this?
 
Thank you  in advance.
 
Ernesto
 
 
 

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