Tom Lane wrote: > Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes: >> But to make it really nice you'd have to move away from pl programs as >> strings. That would be a lot more work, and you really wouldn't want to >> make it work with more than one PL for the sake of everyone's sanity.
You mean something like: postgres=# begin ... end; ? > That would be an awful lot of messiness to save four keystrokes... I second that. We support that in EDB for Oracle compatibility, and it's a pain the ass. You need to call the PL/pgSQL parser on the query string just to figure out where it ends. And worse, psql needs to know about it too, so you need a minimal version of the PL/pgSQL parser in the client too. Something like DO $$ begin ...; end $$; gives 90% of the usability with 10% of the trouble. -- Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
