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 $$ > SELECT intclientid FROM client WHERE vchname = '$1'; ^ ^ remove the ' test=# select * from foo1; x | i ---+--- a | 1 b | 2 (2 rows) test=# create or replace function get_i(varchar) returns int as $$ select i from foo1 where x = $1;$$ language sql; CREATE FUNCTION test=# select get_i('a'); get_i ------- 1 (1 row) 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°