Re: [HACKERS] plpgsql - additional extra checks - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 1/11/17 5:54 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> +    <term><varname>too_many_rows</varname></term>
> +    <listitem>
> +     <para>
> +      When result is assigned to a variable by <literal>INTO</literal> clause,
> +      checks if query returns more than one row. In this case the assignment
> +      is not deterministic usually - and it can be signal some issues in design.

Shouldn't this also apply to

var := blah FROM some_table WHERE ...;

?

AIUI that's one of the beefs the plpgsql2 project has.

FWIW, I'd also be in favor of a NOMULTI option to INTO, but I don't see 
any way to do something like that with var := blah FROM.
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