| From: | Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to> |
| Cc: | sad <sad(at)bankir(dot)ru>, "Gregory S(dot) Williamson" <gsw(at)globexplorer(dot)com>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: feature request ? |
| Date: | 2004-06-24 18:41:42 |
| Message-ID: | 20040624114027.X95843@megazone.bigpanda.com |
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On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 07:34:18 -0700,
> Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > I was thinking that something like Cs switch might work. There's still a
> > question of the keywords because I don't like reusing case, but maybe
> > something of the general form:
> > case foo
> > is true
> > is false
> > is null
>
> There already is a syntax like this. You can do:
> CASE boolean_expression
> WHEN TRUE THEN whatever
> WHEN FALSE THEN whatever
> ELSE whatever
> END
True, but I think that mostly suffers from similar understandability
problems. :)
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