Re: [SQL] Setting variable

On Jun 18, 2007, at 9:29 , Ranieri Mazili wrote:

> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION lost_hours_temp(date)
> RETURNS text AS
> $BODY$
> DECLARE
> START_DATE date;
> END_DATE date;
> QUERY text;
> BEGIN
> START_DATE := $1;
> END_DATE := START_DATE - interval '3 year';
>
> The last line (END_DATE := START_DATE - interval '3 year';)
> generate the following error:
>
> ERROR: operator is not unique: "unknown" / "unknown"
> SQL state: 42725
> Hint: Could not choose a best candidate operator. You may need to
> add explicit type casts.
> Context: PL/pgSQL function "lost_hours_temp" line 10 at assignment

Note that the error is at line 10. You've only shown lines 1 through
7 of the function body, so you haven't actually shown us where the
error is.

Michael Glaesemann
grzm seespotcode net