On Thursday 28 May 2009 5:36:10 pm Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> I have a long plpgsql function which takes a date as one of its
> arguments but I am receiving an error for another date! I'm using 8.3 on
> Debian.
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION
> fn_alert01_maker(integer, integer, integer, integer, date, integer)
> RETURNS SETOF alert_info
> AS $$
> DECLARE
> userid ALIAS for $1;
> alert ALIAS for $2;
> since ALIAS for $3;
> wait ALIAS for $4;
> date_from ALIAS for $5;
> days_until ALIAS for $6;
> resulter alert_info%rowtype;
> since_int INTERVAL;
> wait_int INTERVAL;
> days_int INTERVAL;
>
> BEGIN
>
> days_int := days_until || ' days';
> since_int := since || ' seconds';
> wait_int := wait || ' seconds';
> ...
>
> and has that argument as one of its WHERE conditions:
> ...
> WHERE
> rs.dt_modified > ((now() - wait_int) - since_int)
> AND
> rs.d_date >= date_from
> AND
> rs.d_date <= date_from + days_int
> ...
>
> Wierdly, if I call it like this, it is fine:
> SELECT * FROM fn_alert01_maker(0, 1, 845, 5, '2009-05-31', 5);
>
> But like this it throws an error:
>
> test=> SELECT * FROM fn_alert01_maker(0, 1, 8450, 5, '2009-05-31', 5);
> ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: "2009-06-01"
> CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function "fn_alert01_maker" line 30 at FOR over
> SELECT rows
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Rory
What is the code at line 30 ?
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Adrian Klaver
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