I think you need to double the single quotes around the sequence name:
(''seq1'').
Statements inside function definitions go through an extra level of parsing,
which strips off one set of single quotes.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron S" <zhi7c001@sneakemail.com>
To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 2:34 PM
Subject: [GENERAL] Newbie ...Function error (Stored Procedure)?
> I have a sequence called seq1.
>
> In psql I am trying to create a function which simply calls this
> sequence with the nextval() function.
>
> CREATE FUNCTION testid()
> RETURNS INTEGER
> AS 'SELECT NEXTVAL('seq1');'
> LANGUAGE 'SQL';
>
>
> I get the following error....
> ERROR: parser: parser error at or near "seq1"
>
> I can call nextval('seq1') by itself with now error.
>
> What am I doing wrong? I can't for the life of me figure this
> seemingly simple
> error out ;)
>
> Postgresql 7.0.3 on Mandrake 8.0
>
> Thanks,
> Ron
>
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