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> As I understood it, the negative feeback was really about sh inspiration
> "if/fi", not about elif/elsif/elseif. I do not think that there was an
> expressed consensus about the later.
>
True
> The closest case is CPP with its line-oriented #-prefix syntax, and I
> still think that we should do it like that.
Given that the pl/pgsql syntax has a space between "end" and "if", I have
to agree. It's easy enough to change back if others can make a convincing
argument for something else.