On Wed, April 8, 2009 16:06, Tom Lane wrote:
> "James B. Byrne" <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> writes:
>> I just need another set of eyes to see whatever it is that I am
>> overlooking.
>
> The RETURN is inside the EXCEPTION clause.
>
> You really need two BEGINs here, one for the outer function body and
> one for the exception block around the INSERT.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
So, something like:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION hll_pg_fn_ident_insert()
RETURNS TRIGGER AS $pg_fn$
-- ROW AFTER TRIGGER
-- trigger passes identifier_type and _description
-- received as ARGV[0] and ARGV[1]
BEGIN
BEGIN
INSERT INTO identifiers(...
...
EXCEPTION
WHEN ....
END;
RETURN NULL:
END;
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