| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)surnet(dot)cl> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, MLikharev(at)micropat(dot)com, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: CREATE TEMP TABLE AS SELECT/ GET DIAGNOSTICS ROW_COUNT |
| Date: | 2005-05-31 19:43:56 |
| Message-ID: | 22864.1117568636@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)surnet(dot)cl> writes:
> On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 01:03:30AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> So the initial evidence is that this was not an intentional change.
>> Do we want to revert it? The behavior has been in the field now for
>> more than a full release cycle --- all 7.4.* releases behave this way
>> --- so one could argue that we should leave it be.
> ... Personally I think it should be reverted.
OK, next question: is this a bug fix we should back-patch into 7.4,
or just change it in HEAD?
> One thing: I couldn't find GET DIAGNOSTICS documentation for Oracle's
> PL/SQL by googling around. Is this PL/pgSQL-specific stuff?
It's in the SQL99 spec, though arguably plpgsql is misusing it.
regards, tom lane
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