What version are you using?  On a 7.0.2 freebsd machine,
I cut and paste the below function and query and had
no problems.

Stephan Szabo
sszabo(at)bigpanda(dot)com

On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Pam Withnall wrote:

> I have installed plpgsql procedural language ok,
> I could not get any functions to work. 
> I tried the most simple function as documented:
> CREATE FUNCTION sptest3 (int4) RETURNS int4 AS
> 	'BEGIN
> 		RETURN $1+1;
> 	END;' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';
> 
> 
> When i call the function from sql
> SELECT sptest3(4) AS x;
> I get the error:
> 
> "NOTICE:  plpgsql: ERROR during compile of sptest3 near line 1
> "RROR:  parse error at or near "
> 
> can anybody help?
> 

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