As a near-daily PL/pgSQL developer, I similarly agree.
-Jonah
Andrew Dunstan wrote:
Pavel Stehule wrote:
What do you think about it? It's broke PL/SQL compatibility, I know,
but via last discussion I have opinion so Oracle compatibility isn't
main objective PL/pgSQL. There is some less/bigger diferencess:
SQLSTATE, EXCEPTION from my last proposal, atd.
Well, yes, but I don't think we should break compatibility
arbitrarilly. I guess it could be argued that this is a missing
feature in PL/SQL and its Ada parent - implementing GOTO just to
handle this case seems unnecessary.
I agree with Tom that it should only be allowed inside a loop.
cheers
andrew
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