Re: minor cleanup in plpgsql.sgml - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: minor cleanup in plpgsql.sgml
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Msg-id 6864.1069793198@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: minor cleanup in plpgsql.sgml  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Well, that position is a strange choice.  The standard syntax of SELECT
> INTO in embedded SQL is
> SELECT a, b, c INTO :x, :y, :z FROM ...
> This should probably be consistent.

Well, I'm not wedded to the current recommendation, but we'll never be
able to clean up the current weird-hack implementation of SELECT INTO
until we can freeze the syntax somehow.  The above looks at least as
reasonable as what we're currently recommending ...

            regards, tom lane

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