On Tuesday 23 December 2008 1:04:49 pm justin wrote: > have a function written in pgsql it runs just fine, except its doing > something really stupid. > > The function runs just fine till this select statement > > Select (wo_wipvalue/wo_qtyord) > into _TotalCost > from wo > where wo_id = pWoid ; > > This goes to the work order header table to gets the current value > divided by current qty thats been completed so far, then sticks the > value into _TotalCost variable based on the parameter passed into > variable pWoid. > > problem is it returns NULL which is impossible as i can manually run > the select statement and get the $1.589445 > > I have no idea how to fix this problem going forward??? > > > and the database is 8.3.5 running Ubuntu 8.0 lts Would help to see the whole function. Also make sure you did not name one of the variables the same as a column name, this will confuse plpgsql. Are you using the same value for wo_id in the function as in the manual select statement? -- Adrian Klaver aklaver@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general