Re: plpgsql defensive mode

From: Joel Jacobson <joel(at)trustly(dot)com>
To: Marko Tiikkaja <marko(at)joh(dot)to>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: plpgsql defensive mode
Date: 2014-09-06 14:41:27
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> On 6 sep 2014, at 16:32, Marko Tiikkaja <marko(at)joh(dot)to> wrote:
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> How do you run queries which affect more than one row in this mode? Because that's crucial as well. We want something we can run 100% of our code on, but with a slightly more convenient syntax than PL/PgSQL provides right when coding defensively in the cases where exactly one row should be affected.

If we would have ORDER BY also for UPDATE/DELETE then one could just
order by something arbitrary to express multiple or zero rows are OK,
even if not being interested in the order.

>
>
> .marko

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