Re: minor cleanup in plpgsql.sgml

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: minor cleanup in plpgsql.sgml
Date: 2003-11-25 20:46:38
Message-ID: 6864.1069793198@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Well, that position is a strange choice. The standard syntax of SELECT
> INTO in embedded SQL is
> SELECT a, b, c INTO :x, :y, :z FROM ...
> This should probably be consistent.

Well, I'm not wedded to the current recommendation, but we'll never be
able to clean up the current weird-hack implementation of SELECT INTO
until we can freeze the syntax somehow. The above looks at least as
reasonable as what we're currently recommending ...

regards, tom lane

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