| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Shavonne Marietta Wijesinghe <shavonne(dot)marietta(at)studioform(dot)it> |
| Cc: | Teemu Torma <teemu(at)torma(dot)org>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: duplicate key violates unique constraint |
| Date: | 2008-02-26 17:03:25 |
| Message-ID: | 20080226170325.GJ5763@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Shavonne Marietta Wijesinghe wrote:
> I wrote the query in the SQL windows provided by the pgadmin.
That SQL window only executes SQL, so you can't use PL/pgSQL commands on
it. PL/pgSQL can only be used in the context of a PL/pgSQL function, so
you need to do CREATE FUNCTION to do that.
If you want to use the SQL window you could use SAVEPOINT and ROLLBACK TO.
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