Concatenating strings within a function definition - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

I'm trying to create a function like so:

create function get_lid_prefix (text) returns setof int as
'select lid from ilemma where lemma ~ \'^\' + upper($1)'
language 'sql';

I've tried several variations, including

'select lid from ilemma where lemma ~ ' || '^' || ' upper ($1)'

'select lid from ilemma where lemma ~ (cast ''^'' as text) || upper ($1)'


but nothing works.  Can I do this at all?  The idea is that if $1 is
"foo", the query should be

    select lid from ilemma where lemma ~ '^FOO'

I'm running PostgreSQL 7.4 on sparc-sun-solaris2.8, compiled by GCC 3.0.4.

Thanks,

Nishad
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