Hi again,
I tried your solution, but it gives me still the same error message. But
there is a dotted line under the funcion name, like the error is pointing to
the function name. Is that the correct way to execute a function, using
SELECT ?
Thanks again, Nico
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Kretschmer" <akretschmer@spamfence.net>
To: <pgsql-novice@postgresql.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Function call
> Nico Callewaert <callewaert.nico@telenet.be> schrieb:
>> Function call :
>>
>> select update_afdeling('I', 1, 'afdeling 1', current_timestamp)
>>
>>
>> Error message :
>>
>> ERROR: function update_afdeling(unknown, integer, unknown, timestamp
>> with time
>> zone) does not exist
>> LINE 1: select update_afdeling('I', 1, 'afdeling 1', current_timesta...
>> ^
>> HINT: No function matches the given name and argument types. You might
>> need to
>> add explicit type casts.
>>
>>
>> ********** Error **********
>>
>> ERROR: function update_afdeling(unknown, integer, unknown, timestamp with
>> time
>> zone) does not exist
>> SQL state: 42883
>> Hint: No function matches the given name and argument types. You might
>> need to
>> add explicit type casts.
>> Character: 8
>>
>>
>> What I understand is : the function doesn't match the parameters in the
>> call,
>> but I don't have any idea what I'm doing wrong...
>> I already tried to replace the parameter types with VARCHAR instead of
>> TEXT,
>> but same error.
>
> Cast the current_timestamp to timestamp:
>
> select update_afdeling('I', 1, 'afdeling 1', current_timestamp::timestamp)
>
>
> Andreas
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