Thanks for the assistance Michael Fuhr and Dr. DeSoi. The recoded function is much more what I wanted to anyway - one generic function that could be used on multiple tables through their respective triggers. The new function I am trying is:
CREATE FUNCTION
oc.upd_last_touch()
RETURNS TRIGGER AS
$upd_last_touch$
BEGIN
NEW.last_touch := current_timestamp;
RETURN NEW;
END;
$upd_last_touch$
LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;
However, PostgreSQL is STILL giving me a syntex error on line two of the above function. The exact text is:
ERROR: syntax error at or near "FUNCTION" at character 16.
This error gives me nightmares of QBasic from 1982. Syntex error indeed. I have included a screenshot from pgAdmin III to show you. This is why I am so stumped - the samples from the documentation do not work for me. Could this be an installation or configuration issue? Does anyone see why this is not working for me?
--Matthew
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