Re: GET DIAGNOSTICS (was Re: Open 7.1 items)

At 20:40 18/02/01 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
>>> Hmm, that's definitely what SQL99 uses for the syntax. I wonder where
>>> Jan got the SELECT INTO syntax --- did he borrow it from Oracle?
>
>> Sadly, we made it up.
>
>Ah so. Well, friendliness aside, I'd go with the spec's syntax.

Probably a reasonably defensible position, too.

>> We *do* need to support ROW_COUNT, but allowing
>
>> GET DIAGNOSTICS Select ROW_COUNT, SQLCODE, OID Into :a,:b:,:c;
>
>> is a lot friendlier than the standard:
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>> GET DIAGNOSTICS :a = ROW_COUNT;
>> GET DIAGNOSTICS EXCEPTION 1 :b = SQLCODE;
>> GET DIAGNOSTICS :c = OID;
>
>It looks to me like SQL99 allows
>
> GET DIAGNOSTICS :a = ROW_COUNT, :b = OID, ...;

Yes, but condition information (eg. SPI RESULT or SQLCODE), needs a
separate statement to row information (eg. ROW_COUNT). ie.

GET DIAGNOSTICS :a = ROW_COUNT, :c = OID;
GET DIAGNOSTICS EXCEPTION 1 :b = SQLCODE;

but it's not much of a problem, really. And I agree the 'x = y' syntax is
better.

Unfortunately, I don't have an awful lot of free time at the moment, so I
won't be able to look at this for at *least* as week.

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