Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Well, that position is a strange choice. The standard syntax of SELECT
> INTO in embedded SQL is
> SELECT a, b, c INTO :x, :y, :z FROM ...
> This should probably be consistent.
Well, I'm not wedded to the current recommendation, but we'll never be
able to clean up the current weird-hack implementation of SELECT INTO
until we can freeze the syntax somehow. The above looks at least as
reasonable as what we're currently recommending ...
regards, tom lane