Re: updated patch for foreach stmt

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: updated patch for foreach stmt
Date: 2011-02-08 21:00:05
Message-ID: 20110208210005.GR4116@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Robert Haas (robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> Amen to that!

Hopefully it helped. :)

> I think the syntax Tom suggested before was FOREACH thingy IN ARRAY
> arr rather than just FOREACH thingy IN arr. That's probably a good
> idea, because it gives us an escape hatch against needing to invent
> yet another variant of this syntax - the word immediately following IN
> can be known with confidence to be intended as a keyword rather than
> as part of the expression.

Alright, alright, *I* don't care that much, though I do feel it's a bit
excessive. Updated patch against HEAD attached.

commit a5d32fa41fbbbd9ace465f62be714366990061d4
Author: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Date: Tue Feb 8 15:57:40 2011 -0500

PL/PgSQL FOREACH - Add ARRAY keyword

Add ARRAY as required after IN when using FOREACH, to
future-proof against later kinds of FOREACH commands.

Thanks,

Stephen

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