Scott and Tom, Thanks for your replies. Yes, the missing select keyword was simply a typo on my part. The code that I sent was simplified (I didn't include all the fields, most of which are character varying). I've spent all day yesterday trying to make it work. (I'm not sure if I mentioned this, but I using 8.2.4 on Win2000 SP4). What else could be causing this code to correctly return the next sequence number but not insert anything into the table? Thanks in advance, Gord -----Original Message----- From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 4:46 PM To: Hyatt, Gordon Cc: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: plpgsql question/problem On 8/13/07, Hyatt, Gordon <Gordon.Hyatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm not sure if this is the correct list for this question, but I'll give it a shot anyway. (If this is not the correct list, please suggest the correct one.) CODE SNIPPED. > When I attempt to run insert_a_and_b, insert_b fails with a foreign key violation. I ran your exact same code and it worked fine. Note that I changed one line: begin; insert_a_and_b ('some text for a', 'some text for b'); commit; became: begin; select insert_a_and_b ('some text for a', 'some text for b'); commit; But I assume that's just a simple typo. I'm running pgsql 8.1.8 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org