On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 03:36:18PM +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote: > Agreed. I added a sentence in the first mention of GET DIAGNOSTICS, and > indicated it was generic for that command. What I also added was your > description of when to use := and =, but I put it in the C comments so > we have a record of it and if we need to expand the description or > behavior later. > > > I'll be more happy if a comment about GET DIAGNOSTICS statement will be in user > space.
I thought you would say that. :-) I don't see how this detail makes sense in the sections related to the syntax usage, so I looked in the section Porting from Oracle PL/SQL, and I don't see how it fits there either.
:)
just notice - sorry for my English
==Assign==
Using ":=" is preffered as assign statement due conformity with ADA language (a plpgsql ancestor).
==GET DIAGNOSTICS==
Using "=" is highly preferred due conformity with ANSI/SQL