"Foster, Stephen" <stephenlfoster@comcast.net> writes:
> This is one of the simple ones that has me hung up. It currently errors
> out on the first line. Why I have no idea. It looks right to me.
You should show us the error message; most of us are not psychics.
> CREATE FUNCTION sp_removedups() RETURNS void AS
> $BODY$
> DECLARE lastname varchar(255);
> fname varchar(255);
> id bigint;
> DECLARE NewListCursor CURSOR FOR
> SELECT Name, id
> FROM MailingList
> ORDER BY Name;
> OPEN NewListCursor;
You're missing a BEGIN, and I'm not sure whether it's allowed to use the
DECLARE keyword twice in the same block (the second instance is certainly
unnecessary even if legal).
regards, tom lane