On 03/18/2014 09:04 PM, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On 18 March 2014 18:55, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>
>> That said, I don't find comma expression to be particularly "not
>> simple".
>
> Maybe, but we've not used it before anywhere in Postgres, so I don't
> see a reason to start now. Especially since C is not the native
> language of many people these days and people just won't understand
> it.
Agreed. The psqlODBC code is littered with comma expressions, and the
first time I saw it, it took me a really long time to figure out what
"if (foo = malloc(...), foo) { } " meant. And I consider myself quite
experienced with C.
- Heikki
