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From Itagaki Takahiro
Subject Re: Proposal: plpgsql - "for in array" statement
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In response to Proposal: plpgsql - "for in array" statement  (Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
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On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
> I looked on some constructs that helps with iteration over array in
> plpgsql. I propose a following syntax:
>
> FOR var IN [array variable | array expression]

What is the benefits compared with
FOR ... IN SELECT unnest(array) or generate_subscripts(array) ?

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Itagaki Takahiro

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