On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 11:24, Reinoud van Leeuwen wrote: > I'm debugging a trigger in plpgsql and for some reason or the "select > into <var>" does not seem to work. Here is an unaltered snippet of my > trigger code: > > raise notice ''this id : %'',NEW.id; > > select into i_hierarchy_id > hierarchy_id > from link_def LD, > link L, > object_link OL > where OL.id = NEW.id > and L.id = OL.link_id > and LD.id = L.link_def_id; > > raise notice ''i_hierarchy_id: %'',i_hierarchy_id; > > > in the log this results in: > > NOTICE: this id : 5265 > NOTICE: i_hierarchy_id: <NULL> > > but when I perform the query on the command line I do get a result: > > select hierarchy_id > from link_def LD, > link L, > object_link OL > where OL.id = 5264 > and L.id = OL.link_id > and LD.id = L.link_def_id; > > hierarchy_id > -------------- > 1 > (1 row) > > i_hierarchy_id is declared as integer and is not used before this code nor > as a column name anywhere. > > Does anyone have a clue what is going wrong? I use Postgresql 7.3.3 on > FreeBSD 4.5. >
try giving it a default of 0 in the declare statement, if that doesn't work, post the whole code for the function. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]