On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Hector Villarreal wrote:

Hi Not sure about $1 parms : you may need to use a variable to set $1 to
then cast it as interval :





create or replace function test(integer) returns setof text as $$

declare

  a record;

begin

  select into a now() - ($1::text||'days')::interval;

  return next a;

  return;

end

$$ language 'plpgsql';


This works quite well
I never looked at it that way
Thanks




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Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 12:10 PM
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: [SQL] Help with quotes in plpgsql



How should this be properly quoted



create or replace function test(integer) returns setof text as $$

declare

  a record;

begin

  select into a now() - interval '$1 day';

  return next a;

  return;

end

$$ language 'plpgsql';



I'm not having a lot of luck

Thanks

Richard



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