On May 16, 2006, at 16:53, Mark Dilger wrote:
Sorry, I meant to say that it should only be a no-op according to
the language
specification, as I understand it. The fact that it works suggests
to me that
the implementation of PL/pgsql has been modified (or broken?).
Whether the
change is a bug or an intentional feature change, I don't know.
Ah, yes, I agree, and that's why I posted my query.
mark
P.S., Looking through the documentation, I don't immediately see
the spec for
how a regular '=' is supposed to work, but assignment is documented
as using the
':=' syntax and says nothing about '='.
Exactly. But I use = all the time for comparision:
IF FOUND = TRUE THEN
....
END IF
Best,
David
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