On Jan 18, 2008 3:19 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
Sounds good. Chaining ELSIFs is ugly; I've wished for something like
this in PL/pgSQL from time to time while writing my functions.
A hearty "+1" from me. Let me know if there's anything I can do to
help move it forward.
Cheers
BJ
