> > The motivation is to come closer > > to Oracle's SELECT INTO behavior: when SELECTing INTO scalar targets, > > raise an exception and leave the targets untouched if the query does not > > return exactly one row.
> why that is not the default behavior of the SELECT INTO? > ... > i mean, when you do that code you are expecting just one row from your > query I agree. I suppose I was fearful of breaking existing stuff, so I added a new keyword. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster