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the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 6.2 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a postgresql declare variable minute: Sign up PL/pgSQL syntax error up vote 0 down vote favorite I have a very simple PL/pgSQL script: declare x varchar(100); When I run it I get a message: [WARNING ] declare x varchar(100) ERROR: syntax error at or near "varchar" LINE 1: declare x varchar(100) ^ I really don't understand what is wrong with this. postgresql syntax plpgsql share|improve this question edited Feb 19 '13 at 21:29 Erwin Brandstetter 220k29357468 asked Feb 19 '13 at 17:00 user1544745 202313 Show the whole create function script –Clodoaldo Neto Feb 19 '13 at 17:04 This is the whole script. –user1544745 Feb 19 '13 at 17:05 2 You must wrap it in a create function command. –Clodoaldo Neto Feb 19 '13 at 17:12 2 or a DO statement. –Frank Heikens Feb 19 '13 at 19:21 1 That is not a complete (and syntactically correct) PL/pgSQL "script" –a_horse_with_no_name Feb 19 '13 at 23:04 add a comment| 2 Answers 2 active oldest votes up vote 5 down vote accepted you can use procedural statements only inside function body in PostgreSQL. CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION foo() RETURNS int AS $$ -- here start procedural part DECLARE x int; BEGIN x := 10; RETURN x; END; $$ -- here finish procedural part LANGUAGE plpgsql; -- language specification or in temporary function (anonymous block) DO $$ DECLARE x int; BEGIN x := 10; RAISE NOTICE '>>>%<<<', x; END; $$; isn't possible to use procedural statements as SQL statements like T-SQL. share|improve this answer answered Feb 20 '13 at 6:46 Pavel Stehule 14.7k22230 add a comment| up vote 0 down vote Use exemple DO $$ Declare test varchar; begin test := 'teste'; if (char_length(test) > 0) then RAISE NOTICE '>>>%<<<', test; end if; end; $$; share|improve this answer edited Apr 17 '13 at 11:01 answered Feb 20 '13 at 19:38 Oberdan 11215 add a comment| Your Answer draft saved draft discarded Sign up or log in Sign up using Google Sign up using Facebook Sign up using Email and Password Post as a guest Name Email Post as a guest Name Email discard By posting your answer, you agree to the privacy policy and terms of service
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to update the value of an element in a table with the contents of this text file. Following the instructions at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10968039/postgresql-inserting-value-of-a-column-from-a-file I tried http://grokbase.com/t/postgresql/pgsql-general/13361c3xeq/error-syntax-error-at-or-near this, but get the error below, which I do not understand.Can anyone explain what might be going wrong, and what I should do instead?patricia=# \set content `cat /tmp/certificates.txt`patricia=# update property set value = :'content' where key = 'patricia.home.security.cacerts';ERROR: syntax error at or near ":"LINE 1: update property set value = :'content' where key = 'patricia...^Regards,Graham-- reply Tweet Search Discussions Search All syntax error Groups PostgreSQL pgsql-general 8 responses Oldest Nested Greg Williamson Graham -- The colon (":") is not needed, just remove it. A pair of colons is used to indicate a cast of a value; off hand I am not coming up with any use of a colon in basic SQL. Greg W. Greg Williamson at Mar 6, 2013 at 11:04 pm ⇧ Graham syntax error at --________________________________From: Graham Leggett