Mark Dilger schrob: > Tom Lane wrote: >> No it isn't. The plpgsql scanner treats := and = as *the same token*. >> They can be interchanged freely. This has nothing to do with the case >> of modifying a loop variable in particular. > > I disagree. If the scanner treated them the same, then > > if i := 1 then ... > > would work, but it doesn't. The := is rejected in a conditional. Try the > following code if you don't believe me:
You're confusing the PL/pgSQL scanner with the SQL scanner. Expressions in PL/pgSQL are handed down to the SQL parser. regards, andreas ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
