Re: [GENERAL] Writing a user defined function

I get this error

ERROR: syntax error at or near "cursor"
CONTEXT: invalid type name "scroll cursor for select * from tpcd.customer"
compile of PL/pgSQL function "udf" near line 5

Douglas McNaught wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Suresh_ <suiyengar@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> I am trying to code a simple udf in postgres. How do I write sql
>> commands
>> into pl/sql ? The foll. code doesnt work.
>>
>> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION udf()
>> RETURNS integer AS $$
>> BEGIN
>> for i in 1..2000 loop
>> for j in 1...10000 loop
>> end loop;
>> begin work;
>
> Postgres doesn't let you do transactions inside a function.
>
> Take out the BEGIN and COMMIT, and if you still get errors post the
> function code and the error message that you get.
>
> -Doug
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