Re: REVIEW: WIP: plpgsql - foreach in

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: REVIEW: WIP: plpgsql - foreach in
Date: 2011-01-29 11:50:07
Message-ID: 20110129115007.GI30352@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Itagaki Takahiro (itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 13:05, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> > FOR var in ARRAY array_expression ...
> >
> > I like that a lot more than inventing a new top-level keyword,
>
> AFAIR, the syntax is not good at an array literal.
> FOR var IN ARRAY ARRAY[1,2,5] LOOP ...

I don't really see why that's "not good"? So you have 'ARRAY' twice..
So what? That's better than having a new top-level FOREACH that doesn't
have any reason to exist except to be different from FOR and to not do
the same thing..

Thanks,

Stephen

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