I see one big problem. You have colision between column and variable
names! When you has SQL inside function use prefix for variables or
use qualified names.
DECLARE a varchar;
BEGIN
FOR a IN SELECT a FROM ... -- is bug
you have to do
DELARE _a varchar;
BEGIN
FOR _a IN SELECT t.a FROM tab t ...
Regards
Pavel Stehule
2008/6/30 A B <gentosaker@gmail.com>:
> Then my assumption was wrong.
> Here is the entire function and it fails with the names
> c2,c2div,c3,c3div, but if names are changed, it works!
> (by works I mean I get the "hello" lines printed) There is nothing
> wrong with the select statement either, that works fine if I run it
> stand-alone, or with the names of c2,c2div,c3,c3div changed.
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION foo(pid_ INTEGER) RETURNS void AS $$
> DECLARE
> c2 REAL;
> c2div REAL;
> c3 REAL;
> c3div REAL;
> weights RECORD;
> tmp RECORD;
> retval RECORD;
> t RECORD;
> BEGIN
> RAISE NOTICE 'starting...';
> FOR tmp IN SELECT id,c2,c3 FROM Master WHERE pid=pid_ AND c3 !=0 LOOP
> RAISE NOTICE 'hello %',tmp.id;
> END LOOP;
> RETURN;
> END; $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;
>
>
> 2008/6/30 Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>:
>> Hello
>>
>> it works in my 8.1
>>
>> postgres=# CREATE LANGUAGE plpgsql;
>> CREATE LANGUAGE
>> postgres=# create or replace function foo(a int) returns void as
>> $$declare c2 real; c2div real; begin c2div := 10.9; end; $$ language
>> plpgsql;
>> CREATE FUNCTION
>> postgres=# select foo(10);
>> foo
>> -----
>>
>> (1 row)
>> Regards
>> Pavel Stehule
>>
>> 2008/6/30 A B <gentosaker@gmail.com>:
>>> Hello.
>>> I suspect that in a plpgsql function
>>>
>>> DECLARE
>>> c2 REAL;
>>> cadiv REAL;
>>>
>>> works but
>>>
>>> c2 REAL;
>>> c2div REAL;
>>>
>>> doesn't.
>>>
>>> Is this true, and if so, what are the rules for the names in the
>>> function? I use 8.1.
>
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