Hello, sadly I have to ban few users from my game web site daily and so I'm trying to write a procedure for first copying their id, name, city, IP into a pref_ban table and then erasing their comments and statistics: create or replace function pref_delete_user(_id varchar, _reason varchar) returns void as $BODY$ begin select into pref_ban id, first_name, last_name, city, last_ip from pref_users where id=_id; delete from pref_rep where author=_id; delete from pref_rep where id=_id; delete from pref_catch where id=_id; delete from pref_game where id=_id; delete from pref_hand where id=_id; delete from pref_luck where id=_id; delete from pref_match where id=_id; delete from pref_misere where id=_id; delete from pref_money where id=_id; delete from pref_pass where id=_id; delete from pref_status where id=_id; delete from pref_users where id=_id; end; $BODY$ language plpgsql; Unfortunately, I can't figure out the correct syntax for the first operation (copying into existing table) ERROR: syntax error at "pref_ban" DETAIL: Expected record variable, row variable, or list of scalar variables following INTO. CONTEXT: compilation of PL/pgSQL function "pref_delete_user" near line 3 Using PostgreSQL 8.4.7 @ CentOS 6 / 64 bit. Any help please? Alex -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general