Excerpts from mabra's message of jue dic 02 20:04:36 -0300 2010: > I've just not understood, when I have to write a function to test sql code > and when I can do it interactively. In Postgres, PL/pgSQL and SQL are two different languages. There are things in PL/pgSQL that you cannot do in pure SQL. RAISE is one of them. -- Ãlvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general