Hello
>
> Isn't there a danger of syntactical conflict with the SQL SELECT ... CASE
> statement?
>
no, isn't. SELECT CASE can be only in expression .. inside SQL
statement, but PL/SQL CASE is PL statement. These are two different
worlds. SELECT CASE is invisible for pl parser, because pl parser
solves statements, not expressions.
> I'd love to have CASE in PL/pgSQL, but I always thought that stood in the way.
>
it's safe. SQL/PSM use it too.
Pavel
