NOVICE - first time trigger and function

Dear All,

I'm having trouble creating a function (it's my first time). First
I'll explain what I want to achieve:

I have two tables,I want to add a column to a table2 when a row is
inserted in table1. So i thought i could create a trigger and a
function: But I can't even get the function to do what I want. I tried
the following:

CREATE FUNCTION add_column (name) RETURNS BOOLEAN '
ALTER TABLE table2 ADD COLUMN $1 integer
' LANGUAGE SQL;

I get the following error:

parser: parse error at or near "$1"

Anybody an idea?