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From Sugandha Shah
Subject Re: Function error
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Msg-id 008c01c2429b$0c6a1c80$2005a8c0@cybage.com
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In response to Function error  ("Sugandha Shah" <Sugandhas@cybage.com>)
Responses Re: Function error  ("Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
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Hi ,

Thanx a lot it worked .

Is there any equivalent of dateadd function in postgres ?

Regards,
-Sugandha

----- Original Message -----
From: "Janning Vygen" <vygen@gmx.de>
To: "Sugandha Shah" <Sugandhas@cybage.com>; <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: [SQL] Function error


> Am Dienstag, 13. August 2002 08:06 schrieb Sugandha Shah:
> > Hi ,
> >
> > I'm porting MS- SQL stored procedure to postgres . I'm getting this
> > error :
> >
> > Error occurred while executing PL/pgSQL function
> > sel_free_disk_space line 7 at SQL statement
> > SELECT query has no destination for result data.
> > If you want to discard the results, use PERFORM instead.
>
> you need to SELECT INTO if you want to set a varaible in plpgsql
>
> try this:
> DECLARE
>   var_free integer;
>   -- var_free is used just to name it differently from the column name
> BEGIN
>   SELECT INTO var_free
>         free from logical_drive where computer_id = $1  and
> letter = upper($2);
>   IF var_free THEN
> ...
>
>
> Janning
>
> > CREATE FUNCTION sel_free_disk_space(int4,bpchar) RETURNS integer
> > AS ' DECLARE
> >   -- Declare variable to store the free space.
> >         free INTEGER;
> >
> > BEGIN
> >    select free  from logical_drive where computer_id = $1  and
> > letter = upper($2);
> > IF free IS NULL  THEN
> >        RETURN -1;
> >     END IF;
> >
> >   RETURN free;
> > END;
> > 'LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';
> >
> >
> > I'm not able to understand what I'm missing ?
> >
> > Secondly is there any equivalent of exec for postgres ?
> >
> > Any help will be highly appreciated.
> >
> > Regards,
> > -Sugandha
>
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