Calling CONTINUE with a label that's not a loop produces an error
message with no context info [1]. This is because of
rc = exec_stmt_block(&estate, func->action);if (rc != PLPGSQL_RC_RETURN){ estate.err_stmt = NULL; estate.err_text
=NULL;
I trawled through git blame a bit and it looks like it's been that way
for a very long time.
I think err_stmt should probably only be reset in the non-return case a
bit below that. I'm not sure about err_text though. Also, the code
treats PLPGSQL_RC_OK and PLPGSQL_RC_EXIT the same, which seems like a
bug; I would think PLPGSQL_RC_EXIT should be handled the same way as
CONTINUE.
If someone can confirm this and tell me what to do about err_text I'll
submit a patch.
[1]
decibel@decina.attlocal/50703=# do $$
begin <<outer>> for a in 1..3 loop <<sub>> BEGIN <<inner>> for b in 8..9 loop if
a=2then continue sub; end if; raise notice '% %', a, b; end loop inner;
ENDsub; end loop outer;
end;
$$;
NOTICE: 1 8
NOTICE: 1 9
ERROR: CONTINUE cannot be used outside a loop
CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function inline_code_block
decibel@decina.attlocal/50703=#
[2]
https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/83604cc42353b6c0de2a3f3ac31f94759a9326ae/src/pl/plpgsql/src/pl_exec.c#L438
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