"Jasbinder Singh Bali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In one of my trigger functions, i'm trying to catch invalid ip address > exception
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION func_client_socket() > RETURNS "trigger" AS > $BODY$ > DECLARE > ip_address_present int4; > BEGIN > ip_address_present = 1; > SELECT inet(NEW.canonical_name); > EXCEPTION WHEN invalid_text_representation THEN > ip_address=0; > END; > $BODY$ > LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE; > when i run this function, it gives me the followin error > ERROR: syntax error at or near "EXCEPTION" at character 1343 > which is the line where I have the EXCEPTION clause. When I run the function as given, it doesn't complain about the EXCEPTION, but it does complain about the misspelled variable name on the next line. Maybe you miscounted lines? It'd be worth your while to update to a more recent PG version that gives better-localized syntax error messages. 8.1 or 8.2 will say something like ERROR: syntax error at or near "ip_address" at character 1 QUERY: ip_address=0 CONTEXT: SQL statement in PL/PgSQL function "func_client_socket" near line 7 LINE 1: ip_address=0 ^ regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly