Re: PL/pgSQL loops?

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Johnny Jrgensen" <pgsql(at)halfahead(dot)dk>, <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PL/pgSQL loops?
Date: 2001-11-30 09:29:27
Message-ID: 20011130012817.T52306-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> I said:
> > I would've expected it to count nested parentheses, at least.
>
> Okay, it does that now, and I found that I could tighten the error
> checking to give a sooner/more useful error. Now, if you get caught
> by the integer-FOR-vs-FOR-over-rows problem, you'll probably get
>
> ERROR: missing .. at end of SQL expression
>
> which at least gives you some clue that the problem has something to
> do with the "FOR x IN foo .. bar" syntax.

Definately better, and it probably gives a more meaningful line number
too.

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