help -- cursor inside a function

hello ,
i have a procedure as below.

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create function retrec(integer) returns integer
as
 'declare
        uid alias for $1;
  begin
        declare retrec_cur cursor for select * from jd_user_master where
um_user_id>uid;
        if found then
                fetch 1 from retrec_cur;
                move next from retrec_cur;
                return 1;
        end if;
  end;'
language 'plpgsql';

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this gets created , but while running it i get the error below,
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NOTICE:  plpgsql: ERROR during compile of retrec near line 5
ERROR:  parse error at or near "cursor"

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why this is so ? can anyone help me out ? thanx in advance.