>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
Tom> Most likely this error is not coming from plpgsql, but from
Tom> the core SQL parser spitting up on some transformed query
Tom> that plpgsql tried to feed it. It'll be educational to set
Tom> the debug level to 2 or more (in a fresh backend) and retry
Tom> the failing query. That should cause the postmaster log to
Tom> accumulate the queries being sent down to the SQL parser.
I'll try bumping up the debug level tomorrow morning when I'm awake
enough to know what I'm doing....
Tom> My first thought is that plpgsql may not support the syntax
Tom> arrayvar[subscript] := something
Tom> but I've not tried it.
But line 4 (where it *says* the error is located) reads
new.total := new.level[1] + ... ;
(which might be a variation of the same thing).
roland
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