Re: Function's final statement must be a SELECT

Premil Agarwal escribió:
> I am trying to write a function in PgAdmin 1.8.2 for postgres 8.3. The
> function should check the input parameter for NULL. If its NULL then
> function should return 'Auto' otherwise return the input as such.

>
> CREATE FUNCTION check_for_null( inp character varying) RETURNS character
> varying AS $$
[...]
> $$ LANGUAGE SQL;

              ^^^

There's your problem.  Try using PLPGSQL instead.

In any case, you can do this with COALESCE() and it's much easier.

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