On Saturday, April 23, 2011 3:54:05 pm Elliott Prechter wrote: > I have a function which looks like this: > > ... > declare _object bigint; > begin > set _object = insert into object (object_type,name) values > ('type1','test object'); > insert into ref (object,refname) values (_object,'test object reference'); > end; > ... > > However I get a syntax error on the line 'set _object = insert ....' > > I searched through the docs but don't know what I'm doing wrong. What are you trying to set _object to, the id value of the inserted row? > > Thanks! > Elliott -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general