In that case, how do I RAISE NOTICE a text variable such as:
DECLARE tempstring text;
BEGIN
RAISE NOTICE tempstring;
END
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Huxton" <dev@archonet.com>
To: "Wei Wang" <ww220@cam.ac.uk>; "pgsql" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 8:24 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] to_char problem
> On Monday 16 February 2004 19:15, Wei Wang wrote:
> > I get compile error for this code:
> >
> >
> > for i in 1..arg_count-1 LOOP
> > RAISE NOTICE quote_literal(to_char(i, ''9''));
> > END LOOP;
> >
> > where arg_count = 3.
> >
> > I tried RAISE NOTICE to_char(i, ''9''); as well.
> > to_char returns text, right? Then what did I do wrong here?
>
> Syntax is a little peculiar, you need to do something like
>
> RAISE NOTICE ''hello % world %'',i,j;
>
> Nothing else will do.
>
> --
> Richard Huxton
> Archonet Ltd
>
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