Re: Question about function - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: Question about function
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Msg-id 20020314074843.L433-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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In response to Question about function  (Bruno Lopes (Desenvolvimento) <blvieira@pcsolution.com.br>)
List pgsql-general
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Bruno Lopes wrote:

> Hello list.
> That might sound very lame but I am new to postgres.
> I was looking into the postgres guide and trying to make a function to make an insert to a table.
> but postgres returns me an error in the RETURN of the function
>
> query is:
> CREATE FUNCTION test() RETURNS bool AS 'INSERT INTO b (nome) VALUES (\'PQP\');' LANGUAGE 'sql';
> >> function declared to return type bool, but final query is not a retrieve
>
> obviously my return type is incorrect... so what should I use?

I think you need to end an sql language function with a select of some
sort (even if it's just say select true;)



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