plpgsql error: syntax error at or near “:”

Question

I am receiving the error in the title. The weird thing for me is that there is no colon anywhere in my SQL code.

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION "CreateUser" (
  "@first_name"           VARCHAR(25),
  "@last_name"            VARCHAR(25),
  "@email"                VARCHAR(254),
  "@password"             VARCHAR(250)
)
RETURNS UUID AS
$func$
DECLARE "id" UUID;
BEGIN
  "id" = uuid_generate_v4();
  INSERT INTO
    "users" (
      "id",
      "first_name",
      "last_name",
      "email",
      "password"
    )
  VALUES (
    "id",
    "@first_name",
    "@last_name",
    "@email",
    "@password"
  );
  RETURN "id";
END;
$func$ LANGUAGE PLPGSQL;

The field types are all the same so it can't be a type issue.

Is there a semicolon missing somewhere or is this just structure incorrectly altogether?

Answer 1

It turns out that I do not have the package uuid_generate_v4(); setup on sql and not sure how to support it so at least for the time being, I created a uuid on the server and passed it into sql.

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION "CreateUser" (
  "@newid"                UUID,
  "@first_name"           VARCHAR(25),
  "@last_name"            VARCHAR(25),
  "@email"                VARCHAR(254),
  "@password"             VARCHAR(250)
)
RETURNS UUID AS
$func$
DECLARE "id" UUID;
BEGIN
  INSERT INTO
    "users" (
      "id",
      "first_name",
      "last_name",
      "email",
      "password"
    )
  VALUES (
    "@newid",
    "@first_name",
    "@last_name",
    "@email",
    "@password"
  );
  RETURN "id";
END;
$func$ LANGUAGE PLPGSQL;