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To: Pavel Stehule <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: remove undocumented assign syntax from plpgsql doc
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:36:04 -0500
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On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 05:39:22PM +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> I don't understand last sentence of comment
>
> ! /*
> ! * Ada-based PL/SQL uses := for assignment and variable defaults, while
> ! * the SQL standard uses equals for these cases and for GET
> ! * DIAGNOSTICS, so we support both. FOR and OPEN only support :=.
> ! */
> ! assign_operator : '='
>
> "FOR and OPEN only support :="
>
> FOR statement nor OPEN statement doesn't use ":="
Uh, I see it in the documented syntax:
OPEN <replaceable>bound_cursorvar</replaceable> <optional> ( <optional>
<replaceable>argument_name</replaceable> := </optional> <---
<replaceable>argument_value
FOR <replaceable>recordvar</replaceable> IN
<replaceable>bound_cursorvar</replaceable> <optional> ( <optional>
<replaceable>argument_name</replaceable> := <---
</optional> <replaceable>argument_value
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