Stuart Grimshaw <stuart.grimshaw@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb: > I'm writing a script to clean up some data in a table, the data I'm > using as the source is held in emails, so I've written a perl script > to extract the info. Unfortunatly this email doesn't contain the > client id, so I've written a stored procedure to extract it. > > create or replace function get_client_id(text) returns integer as $$ > SELECT intclientid FROM client WHERE vchname = '$1'; > $$ LANGUAGE SQL; > > However, when I do this: > > select get_client_id('Stuart Grimshaw'); > > I get no results, yet: Please read our documentation about executing dynamic commands: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-EXECUTING-DYN HTH, Andreas -- Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. (Linus Torvalds) "If I was god, I would recompile penguin with --enable-fly." (unknow) Kaufbach, Saxony, Germany, Europe. N 51.05082°, E 13.56889°