Salvador Mainé wrote:

> Hello:
>
> I'm trying to define a function that, given a date, returns its month.
> The definition is as follows:
>
> CREATE function anyo_hidro (date) returns int AS '
>        BEGIN
>        RETURN date_part("month",$1);
>        END;
> ' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';
>
> But when I do:
>
> select anyo_hidro('1-1-1999');
>
> I get the following error:
>
> ERROR:  Attribute 'month' not found

Try,

test=# CREATE function anyo_hidro (date) returns int AS '
       BEGIN
                  RETURN date_part(\'month\',$1::datetime);
       END;
' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';

CREATE
test=#  select anyo_hidro('1-1-1999');
 anyo_hidro
------------
          1
(1 row)


I use:

test=# select version();
                            version
---------------------------------------------------------------
 PostgreSQL 7.0.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc 2.95.3
(1 row)

test=#


George Moga,
    Data Systems Srl



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