At the moment I have an hstore that describes the properties of various items. When searching I need to remove values that are unique to a each item (such as serial number, vin, and so on). According to the postgresql docs I should be able to remove a key from an hstore with the following operator
As per the postgres docs
hstore - text delete key from left operand 'a=>1, b=>2, c=>3'::hstore - 'b'::text
In my code I have
IF item.details ? 'vin' THEN
item.details::hstore - 'vin'::TEXT;
END IF;
When I go to create the function I get the syntax error
'syntax error at or near "::"'
When I remove the type declarations from the end of the values I get the error
'syntax error at or near "-"'
As far as I can see this conforms to how the postgres docs say the operator should work at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/hstore.html . Is there something I am missing?
