"Chris Ochs" <chris@paymentonline.com> writes:
> 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;
When you want to use single quotes inside a quoted string (which is
what a function body is) you need to escape them.
-Doug
