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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Richard Huxton <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Suggested patch to plpgsql docs (7.4beta)
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 19:11:48 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Richard Huxton wrote:
> Addition of one paragraph to the end of section 39.7.3.4 "FOR (integer 
> variant)"
> 
> Note that this is basically a WHILE loop, so if the lower bound is larger than 
> the upper bound the loop never executes it's contents:
>   FOR i IN 10..1 LOOP
>     RAISE NOTICE ''I do not raise a notice %'',i;
>   END LOOP;
> 
> I wasn't sure and had to check, so I assume others might find this useful too.

I figured everyone would assume that.  I know of no language that will
execute a loop listed as 10 ... 1.

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