On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 19:14 -0500, John Smith wrote: > guys, > how'd i make this query work? > select headline(select column_1 from table_1 where to_tsvector > (column_1) @@ to_tsquery('ftp'),'ftp'::tsquery); > ERROR: syntax error at or near "select" at character 17 > When passing a subselect as an argument to a function, you need to put it in parenthesis, like so: select myfunction((select ... from ...),''); Regards, Jeff Davis