Michael McDonnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And when I run "SELECT contactable_name(1);" I get the error message > "parse error at or near $1". $1 is a parameter placeholder; probably your problem is unexpected substitution (or lack of substitution) of a plplgsql variable or parameter into a query that's being sent to the underlying SQL engine. In 7.1 the easiest way to debug this type of problem is to do SET debug_print_query TO 1; then execute the problem function call, and then look in the postmaster log to see what queries got generated by the function. In older PG versions there is no debug_print_query variable, so you have to resort to setting environment variable PGOPTIONS to "-d2" before starting psql to get query logging. plpgsql needs more support for debugging --- some kind of trace mechanism that doesn't require access to the postmaster log would be awfully nice ... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: 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