| From: | David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>, Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PSQL commands: \quit_if, \quit_unless |
| Date: | 2016-11-29 22:25:43 |
| Message-ID: | 2b74d7f3-740a-bb22-9e39-276dcb5c48d0@pgmasters.net |
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On 11/29/16 5:08 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> On 11/29/2016 03:07 PM, Fabien COELHO wrote:
>>
>>
>> I cannot remember a language with elseif* variants, and I find them
>> quite ugly, so from an aethetical point of view I would prefer to
>> avoid that... On the other hand having an "else if" capability makes
>> sense (eg do something slightly different for various versions of pg),
>> so that would suggest to stick to a simpler "if" without variants, if
>> possible.
>
> FTR I *strongly* disagree with this. (And if you can't remember a
> language that comes with them then you need to get out more. The Bourne
> shell, where it's spelled "elif", and Ada are two obvious examples.)
Not to mention PL/pgSQL and Perl.
--
-David
david(at)pgmasters(dot)net
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