Martín Marqués, 21.09.2011 14:56:
> I was makeing an SQL function and got an error which on a sintax that
> I thouhgt would work:
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION dicInsertarPalabra(p TEXT)
> RETURNS INT AS $body$
> INSERT INTO public.diccionario (palabra) VALUES (quote_literal(p));
> SELECT COALESCE(codigo,0) FROM public.diccionario
> WHERE palabra = quote_literal(p);
> $body$ LANGUAGE 'SQL';
>
> Changing p for $1 in the body of the function makes it work. But,
> can't we label input arguments like how I did here?
>
This is because the language SQL does not support named parameters, only positional ones.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/xfunc-sql.html#XFUNC-NAMED-PARAMETERS
Thomas