Stuart Grimshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> I'm writing a script to clean up some data in a table, the data I'm
> using as the source is held in emails, so I've written a perl script
> to extract the info. Unfortunatly this email doesn't contain the
> client id, so I've written a stored procedure to extract it.
>
> create or replace function get_client_id(text) returns integer as $$
> SELECT intclientid FROM client WHERE vchname = '$1';
> $$ LANGUAGE SQL;
>
> However, when I do this:
>
> select get_client_id('Stuart Grimshaw');
>
> I get no results, yet:
Please read our documentation about executing dynamic commands:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-EXECUTING-DYN
HTH, Andreas
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