I've found the problem, its not about the quotes, it's the way the assignment is made:
val:=SELECT nextval(\'usuarios_seq\'); <-WRONG
val:=nextval(\'usuarios_seq\'); <-RIGHT
SELECT INTO should work too.
Thanks everyone.
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 14:12, Richard Huxton wrote:
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 16:12, Franco Bruno Borghesi wrote:
> I need a function to fetch the nextval of a sequence (it should do other
> things, but my problem is the nextval() call), like this:
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test() RETURNS INTEGER AS '
> DECLARE
> val INTEGER;
> BEGIN
> val:=SELECT nextval(''''''''''usuarios_seq'''''''''');
> I can't figure out how many quotes I should use to call nextval. I've
> read an article at the techdocs about this, but didn't help me. If
> anyone knows the *magic* number, please tell me :)
Two, or escape them: nextval(''usuarios_seq'')
or nextval(\'usuarios_seq\')
