> Add "RAISE ERROR" to the top function's BEGIN block and verify that the > next time you run your calling query it indeed fails. I'm suspecting that > the code you are iterating over is not the same code that is being > executed > (search_path dynamics probably). Do you mean like this BEGIN RAISE NOTICE . . INSERT INTO public.runtime_benchmark (test_number, column_names, execution_time, operation_type, seal_or_sql) VALUES (1, 'Pickup_longitude, Dropoff_longitude', '1', 'sub', 'seal'); . . END; If I use RAISE ERROR i get ERROR: unrecognized exception condition "error" Tal -- Sent from: http://www.postgresql-archive.org/PostgreSQL-general-f1843780.html