Re: plpgsql: RAISE <level> <expr> <params>

From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: plpgsql: RAISE <level> <expr> <params>
Date: 2001-07-23 14:37:29
Message-ID: 200107231437.f6NEbTG23985@jupiter.us.greatbridge.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
> and then the code takes care of swallowing expressions until ';',
> similarly to the way SQL commands are handled. (plpgsql's parsing
> methodology is sinfully ugly, isn't it? But I don't suppose you
> want to try to replace it...)

It is, indeed, and I'm sorry for that. But it was the only
way I saw to make new features in the PostgreSQL main query
engine automatically available in PL/pgSQL without a single
change.

Jan

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