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From Andy Lewis
Subject Point and function help
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Msg-id 000f01c3cab5$7ba83b60$0201a8c0@andy2
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Hello all merry XMAS!
 
I'm trying to create a function that will return a point and having little luck in returning results.
Basically I have a zip code DB complete with city, state and zip pre-populated.
 
What I would like to do is create this function:
 
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.map_point(pg_catalog.varchar, pg_catalog.varchar, pg_catalog.varchar)
  RETURNS point AS
'SELECT map_loc from zip_code where zip = \'$3\' and lower(state) = lower(\'$2\') and lower(city) = lower(\'$1\')'
  LANGUAGE 'sql' VOLATILE;
 
And I have no problems creating this function however, I can't get it to return any thing from my zip_code table.
 
Am I doing something wrong?
 
Here's a snippet of the zip_code table:
 
       Table "public.zip_code"
Column   |          Type          | Modifiers
-----------+------------------------+-----------
 city      | character varying(100) |
 state     | character varying(2)   |
 zip       | character varying(10)  |
 area_code | character varying(3)   |
 map_loc   | point                  |
 
    city    | state |  zip  | area_code |      map_loc     
------------+-------+-------+-----------+-------------------
 portsmouth | nh    | 00210 | 603       | (43.0718,70.7634)
 portsmouth | nh    | 00211 | 603       | (43.0718,70.7634)
 portsmouth | nh    | 00212 | 603       | (43.0718,70.7634)
 portsmouth | nh    | 00213 | 603       | (43.0718,70.7634)
 
And nothing returned but an empty row:
 
my_db=# select public.map_point('portsmouth','nh','00211');
 map_point
-----------
 
(1 row)
 
 
I'm running 7.3.x on Slackware.
 
Any ideas why this is happening?
 
Thanks,
 
Andy

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