Re: code in docs gives me an error

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Hi,

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Hicham G. Elmongui wrote:

> I tried creating the function (from sec 19.3.1). But it gives me the
> following error: "ERROR:  type tablename does not exist".
> Any ideas of what i might be doing wrong?

You have to write the data type while defining the function parameters.
For example,

CREATE FUNCTION use_many_fields(varchar) RETURNS TEXT AS '

...and then declare it as you've done below:

> DECLARE
>    in_t ALIAS FOR $1;

Regards,
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