Parse error help needed... - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Thapliyal, Deepak
Subject Parse error help needed...
Date
Msg-id 1FE5193EE2768D478949FC0AFBFFC43B06EBDE05@mail-sd1.station.sony.com
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Responses Re: Parse error help needed...  (Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>)
Re: Parse error help needed...  (Alex Satrapa <alex@lintelsys.com.au>)
List pgsql-general
I am getting this error

postgres=# \i a.sql
psql:a.sql:10: ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "return" at character
26


--
a.sql
--
create function loadme() return text as '
Declare
   s_out text ;
Begin
  For i in 1..10000 loop
    insert into test values (i,''Test'');
  end loop;
return s_out;
End;
' language 'plpgsql';

Any help is appreciated

Thx
Deep

PS: I already loaded pl/pgsql in my database
[postgres@node1]~$ createlang -d test -l
Procedural languages
  Name   | Trusted?
---------+----------
 plpgsql | t
(1 row)


-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Chris Ochs
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 4:30 PM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] sql insert function


Never mind, I forgot to quote the quote's...

Chris

> The documentation doesn't have any examples of using an sql language
> function to do an insert, andI am at loss as to I am doing wrong here.
> The error I get trying to create the function is:  ERROR:  syntax
> error at or near "$1" at character 148
>
> CREATE FUNCTION taxship(varchar,integer,varchar,float,float) returns
integer
> AS '
> insert into taxship(s_oid,order_id,mer_id,tax,shipping) values
> ('$1',$2,'$3',$4,$5); SELECT 1;
> ' LANGUAGE SQL;
>
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