Database Function giving an error - Postgresql - database

I had some help on here and got the following code:
-- Setup Solrid Function
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION solrid(IN local_id INTEGER, OUT result TEXT) AS $$
DECLARE
database_id TEXT := 'A';
BEGIN
result := database_id || local_id::TEXT;
END;
$$ LANGUAGE PLPGSQL;
However when I run it in sqlfiddle it says:
Schema Creation Failed: ERROR: unterminated dollar-quoted string at or
near "$$ DECLARE database_id TEXT := 'A'":
This error may seem pretty self explanatory but I can't figure out the way to fix it. Would anyone mind shedding some light on this please?

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this function, it is 100 % legit. I tested with 8.4 and 9.1 in my installation.
There must be some kind of misunderstanding. This cannot be exactly the same code that triggers the error message.

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PL/SQL No Data found error on forall loop

I am getting no data found error while looping over an array. The execute immediate has data, but the forall loop is giving no data found error and not able to iterate over the collection.
Please find the code below. code_arr.FIRST seems to have some issue. Table has data and executing sql gives data on editor. Could you please help.
create or replace PACKAGE TEST AS
FUNCTION TEST RETURN NUMBER;
END;
create or replace PACKAGE BODY TEST AS
FUNCTION TEST RETURN NUMBER
IS
TYPE typ_varchar IS TABLE OF VARCHAR2 (1000) INDEX BY BINARY_INTEGER;
lv_statement VARCHAR2 (1000);
code_arr typ_varchar;
var1 varchar(1000);
BEGIN
lv_statement := 'SELECT lnm.code FROM employee lnm';
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE lv_statement BULK COLLECT
INTO code_arr;
FORALL ix1 IN code_arr.FIRST .. code_arr.LAST SAVE EXCEPTIONS
SELECT code_arr(ix1) into var1 FROM DUAL;
RETURN 1;
END;
END;
Thanks in advance for your help.
Mathew
FORALL is meant for bulk DML and not for looping through data. The syntax diagram shows this:
To be pedantic, SELECT is a form of DML, although it's usually considered separate from commands that modify objects. That might be why the original code sort of works but throws an error at run time instead of at compile time.
If all you need to do is loop through data, just use a cursor for loop like this. Oracle automatically uses bulk collect for these types of loops:
begin
for employees in
(
SELECT lnm.code FROM employee lnm
) loop
--Do something here.
null;
end loop;
end;
/

postgresql function creation gives syntax error

I am writing a postgresql function but I cannot seem to find where the error is. Postgresql is at version 9.4.
The following is the function:
CREATE FUNCTION custom_function1()
RETURNS trigger
LANGUAGE plpgsql
AS
$$
DECLARE base_val integer;
BEGIN
base_val := (EXTRACT(YEAR FROM now())::integer * 10000000000);
IF (currval('custom_sequence') < base_val) THEN
setval('custom_sequence', base_val);
END IF;
NEW.id := custom_function2();
RETURN NEW;
END;
$$;
My custom_sequence is in the format YYYY0000000000 (ex. 20150000000000).
So what this basically does (should do) is it checks if the base_val (minimum value for current year) is greater then the currval (current custom_sequence value) and updates the custom_sequence value. Then it returns a new value for that sequence generated with the function custom_function2 (which formats it slighly).
When I try to execute this it gives me:
syntax error at or near "setval"
I am pretty new to both postgresql and writing functions so I am probably not seeying an obvious error. If someone could help me it would be highly appreciated, thank you.
The error is related to what's explained in the doc here:
40.5.2 Executing a Command With No Result
[...]
Sometimes it is useful to evaluate an expression or SELECT query but
discard the result, for example when calling a function that has
side-effects but no useful result value. To do this in PL/pgSQL, use
the PERFORM statement:
PERFORM query;
You should write:
PERFORM setval('custom_sequence', base_val);

How to install PL/CTL language into PostgreSQL database 8.1.22

Hi I am using postgresql 8.1.22, I am trying to setup postgresql auditing using the following function.
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION audit.if_modified_func() RETURNS TRIGGER AS $body$
DECLARE
v_old_data TEXT;
v_new_data TEXT;
BEGIN
/* If this actually for real auditing (where you need to log EVERY action),
then you would need to use something like dblink or plperl that could log outside the transaction,
regardless of whether the transaction committed or rolled back.
*/
/* This dance with casting the NEW and OLD values to a ROW is not necessary in pg 9.0+ */
IF (TG_OP = 'UPDATE') THEN
v_old_data := ROW(OLD.*);
v_new_data := ROW(NEW.*);
INSERT INTO audit.logged_actions (schema_name,table_name,user_name,action,original_data,new_data,query)
VALUES (TG_TABLE_SCHEMA::TEXT,TG_TABLE_NAME::TEXT,session_user::TEXT,substring(TG_OP,1,1),v_old_data,v_new_data, current_query());
RETURN NEW;
ELSIF (TG_OP = 'DELETE') THEN
v_old_data := ROW(OLD.*);
INSERT INTO audit.logged_actions (schema_name,table_name,user_name,action,original_data,query)
VALUES (TG_TABLE_SCHEMA::TEXT,TG_TABLE_NAME::TEXT,session_user::TEXT,substring(TG_OP,1,1),v_old_data, current_query());
RETURN OLD;
ELSIF (TG_OP = 'INSERT') THEN
v_new_data := ROW(NEW.*);
INSERT INTO audit.logged_actions (schema_name,table_name,user_name,action,new_data,query)
VALUES (TG_TABLE_SCHEMA::TEXT,TG_TABLE_NAME::TEXT,session_user::TEXT,substring(TG_OP,1,1),v_new_data, current_query());
RETURN NEW;
ELSE
RAISE WARNING '[AUDIT.IF_MODIFIED_FUNC] - Other action occurred: %, at %',TG_OP,now();
RETURN NULL;
END IF;
EXCEPTION
WHEN data_exception THEN
RAISE WARNING '[AUDIT.IF_MODIFIED_FUNC] - UDF ERROR [DATA EXCEPTION] - SQLSTATE: %, SQLERRM: %',SQLSTATE,SQLERRM;
RETURN NULL;
WHEN unique_violation THEN
RAISE WARNING '[AUDIT.IF_MODIFIED_FUNC] - UDF ERROR [UNIQUE] - SQLSTATE: %, SQLERRM: %',SQLSTATE,SQLERRM;
RETURN NULL;
WHEN OTHERS THEN
RAISE WARNING '[AUDIT.IF_MODIFIED_FUNC] - UDF ERROR [OTHER] - SQLSTATE: %, SQLERRM: %',SQLSTATE,SQLERRM;
RETURN NULL;
END;
$body$
LANGUAGE plpgsql
SECURITY DEFINER
But if you observe in the above function current_query() is not coming with the mentioned language plpgsql. It throws some error. When I googled I found that in order to use current_query() function PL/CTL language must be installed. I tried to install as mentioned below. It throws an error. So kindly help me how to install PL/CTL language into my database so that current_query() function should work
-bash-3.2$ createlang -d dbname pltcl
createlang: language installation failed: ERROR: could not access file "$libdir/pltcl": No such file or directory
Okay as you suggested I created that current_query() function,but this time I got some thing like this , What i did is ,
CREATE TABLE phonebook(phone VARCHAR(32), firstname VARCHAR(32), lastname VARCHAR(32), address VARCHAR(64));
CREATE TRIGGER phonebook_auditt AFTER INSERT OR UPDATE OR DELETE ON phonebook
FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE audit.if_modified_func();
INSERT INTO phonebook(phone, firstname, lastname, address) VALUES('9966888200', 'John', 'Doe', 'North America');
for testing the function i created a table named phonebook and created a trigger so that the function mentioned above audit.if_modified_func() will be executed after any insert or update or delete.the row is getting inserted but I am getting a error reg the audit.if_modified_func() function .the error is as follows
WARNING: [AUDIT.IF_MODIFIED_FUNC] - UDF ERROR [OTHER] - SQLSTATE: 42703, SQLERRM: column "*" not found in data type phonebook
Query returned successfully: 1 rows affected, 10 ms execution time.
Kindly tell me what can i do to get rid of the above error.
Not sure where you found the information about current_query and pltcl. These are unrelated. The reason why you can't find pltcl is simply because you're using too old PostgreSQL. current_query() has been added to Pg in version 8.4.
Is there any particular reason why you're using such old version? It is no longer supported, and it lacks almost 8 years of added features!
If you have to use 8.1, you might want to define:
create function current_query() returns text as '
select current_query from pg_stat_activity where procpid = pg_backend_pid();
' language sql;
But it is much better idea just to upgrade.
As for edited and added second question - it's very likely that Pg 8.1 cannot use "row.*" construct. Find who wrote the original code with the "dance comments", and ask about it. Perhaps it was meant to work in newer Pgs.

Why am i getting a syntax error with this prepared statement?

I am trying to learn how to do a PreparedStatement as follows:
createConnection();
conn.setAutoCommit(false);
String sql = "SELECT MAX(?) FROM ?";
PreparedStatement stmt = conn.prepareStatement(sql);
However, when I hit the last line, it throws a java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException as follows:
java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: Syntax error: Encountered "?" at line 1, column 20.
I have searched everywhere but cant find any reason for it to fail. What am I doing wrong? later on in the code I am setting the ? parameters as meaning full string values but when I debug I never get to that point. It hits this conn.prepareStatement line and throws the exception. Thanks for the help. I don't know if it makes a difference but it is on a derby database.
Think of your ? mark as a sql variable. You can't do a select MAX on a variable, it's syntactically incorrect.
You can't do the following:
declare #myvar int
select #myvar = 1
SELECT MAX(#myvar) from SomeTable

Delphi: "Parameter object is improperly defined. Inconsistent or incomplete information was provided."

I'm trying to insert a record into a table in a 3-tier database setup, and the middle-tier server generates the error message above as an OLE exception when it tries to add the first parameter to the query.
I've Googled this error, and I find the same result consistently: it comes from having a colon in a string somewhere in your query, which b0rks ADO's SQL parser. This is not the case here. There are no spurious colons anywhere. I've checked and rechecked the object definition against the schema for the table I'm trying to insert into. Everything checks out, and this has my coworkers stumped. Does anyone know what else could be causing this? I'm at my wits' end here.
I'm using Delphi 2007 and SQL Server 2005.
I can get this error, using Delphi 2007 and MSSQL Server 2008, and I found a workaround. (which is pretty crappy IMHO, but maybe its useful to you if yours is caused by the same thing.)
code to produce the error:
with TADOQuery.Create(nil)
do try
Connection := ADOConnection;
SQL.Text := ' (SELECT * FROM Stock WHERE InvCode = :InvCode ) '
+' (SELECT * FROM Stock WHERE InvCode = :InvCode ) ';
Prepared := true;
Parameters.ParamByName('InvCode').Value := 1;
Open; // <<<<< I get the "parameter object is...etc. error here.
finally
Free;
end;
I found two ways to fix it:
1) remove the brackets from the SQL, ie:
SQL.Text := ' SELECT * FROM Stock WHERE InvCode = :InvCode '
+' SELECT * FROM Stock WHERE InvCode = :InvCode ';
2) use two parameters instead of one:
with TADOQuery.Create(nil)
do try
Connection := ADOConnection;
SQL.Text := ' (SELECT * FROM Stock WHERE InvCode = :InvCode1 ) '
+' (SELECT * FROM Stock WHERE InvCode = :InvCode2 ) ';
Prepared := true;
Parameters.ParamByName('InvCode1').Value := 1;
Parameters.ParamByName('InvCode2').Value := 1;
Open; // <<<<< no error now.
finally
Free;
end;
I found this thread while searching the previously mentioned Exception message. In my case, the cause was an attempt to embed a SQL comment /* foo */ into my query.sql.text.
(I thought it would have been handy to see a comment go floating past in my profiler window.)
Anyhow - Delphi7 hated that one.
Here a late reply. In my case it was something completely different.
I tried to add a stored procedure to the database.
Query.SQL.Text :=
'create procedure [dbo].[test]' + #13#10 +
'#param int ' + #13#10 +
'as' + #13#10 +
'-- For the parameter you can pick two values:' + #13#10 +
'-- 1: Value one' + #13#10 +
'-- 2: Value two';
When I removed the colon (:) it worked. As it saw the colon as a parameter.
I just encountered this error myself. I'm using Delphi 7 to write to a 2003 MS Access database using a TAdoQuery component. (old code) My query worked fine directly in MS Access, but fails in Delphi through the TAdoQuery object. My error came from a colon (apologies to the original poster) from a date/time value.
As I understand it, Jet SQL date/time format is #mm/dd/yyyy hh:nn:ss# (0 left-padding is not required).
If the TAdoQuery.ParamCheck property is True then this format fails. (Thank you posters!) Two work-arounds are: a) set ParamCheck to False, or b) use a different date/time format, namely "mm/dd/yyyy hh:nn:ss" (WITH the double quotes).
I tested both of these options and they both worked.
Even though that double-quoted date/time format isn't the Jet date/time format, Access is pretty good at being flexible on these date/time formats. I also suspect it has something to do with the BDE/LocalSQL/Paradox (Delphi 7's native SQL and database engine) date/time format (uses double quotes, as above). The parser is probably designed to ignore quoted strings (double quotes are the string value delimiter in BDE LocalSQL), but may stumble somewhat on other non-native date/time formats.
SQL Server uses single quotes to delimit strings, so that might work instead of double quotes when writing to SQL Server tables (not tested). Or maybe the Delphi TAdoQuery object will still stumble. Turning off ParamCheck in that case may be the only option. If you plan to toggle the ParamCheck property value in code, you'll save some processing time by ensuring the SQL property is empty before enabling it, if you're not planning on parsing the current SQL.
I'm facing the same error described in your question. I've traced the error into ADODB.pas -> procedure TParameters.AppendParameters; ParameterCollection.Append(Items[I].ParameterObject).
By using breakpoints, the error was raised, in my case, by a parameter which should fill a DateTime field in the database and I've never filled up the parameter. Setting up the parameter().value:='' resolved the issue (I've tried also with varNull, but there is a problem - instead of sending Null in the database, query is sending 1 - the integer value of varNull).
PS: I know is a 'late late late' answer, but maybe somebody will reach at the same error.
If I remember well, you have to explicit put NULL value to the parameter. If you are using a TAdoStoredProc component, you should do this in design time.
Are you using any threading? I seem to remember getting this error when a timer event started a query while the ADO connection was being used for another synchronous query. (The timer was checking a "system available" flag every minute).
Have you set the DataType of the parameter or did you leave it as ftUnknown?
I have also had the same problem, but with a dynamic command (e.g. an Update statement).
Some of the parameters could be NULL.
The only way i could get it working, was setting the parameter.DataType := ftString and parameter.Size := 1 and not setting the value.
cmdUpdate := TADOCommand.Create(Self);
try
cmdUpdate.Connection := '**Conections String**';
cmdUpdate.CommandText := 'UPDATE xx SET yy = :Param1 WHERE zz = :Param2';
cmdUpdate.Parameters.ParamByName('Param2').Value := WhereClause;
if VarIsNull(SetValue) then
begin
cmdUpdate.Parameters.ParamByName('Param1').DataType := ftString;
cmdUpdate.Parameters.ParamByName('Param1').Size := 1;
end else cmdUpdate.Parameters.ParamByName('Param1').Value := SetValue;
cmdUpdate.Execute;
finally
cmdUpdate.Free;
end;
I just ran into this error today on a TADOQuery which has ParamCheck := False and has no colons in the SQL.
Somehow passing the OLECMDEXECOPT_DODEFAULT parameter to TWebBrowser.ExecWB() was causing this for me:
This shows the problem:
pvaIn := EmptyParam;
pvaOut := EmptyParam;
TWebBrowser1.ExecWB(OLECMDID_COPY, OLECMDEXECOPT_DODEFAULT, pvaIn, pvaOut);
This does not show the problem:
pvaIn := EmptyParam;
pvaOut := EmptyParam;
TWebBrowser1.ExecWB(OLECMDID_COPY, OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER, pvaIn, pvaOut);
A single double quote in the query can also raise this error from what I just experienced and I am not using parameters at all ...
You can get this error when attempting to use a time value in the SQL and forget to wrap it with QuotedStr().
I got the same error. Turned out, that it is because a parameter of the stored procedure was declared as varchar(max). Made it varchar(4000) and error disappeared.

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