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From: Pavel Stehule <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: remove undocumented assign syntax from plpgsql doc
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 11:07:29 +0100
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2014/1/14 Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>

> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 03:36:18PM +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> >     Agreed.  I added a sentence in the first mention of GET DIAGNOSTICS,
> and
> >     indicated it was generic for that command.  What I also added was
> your
> >     description of when to use := and =, but I put it in the C comments
> so
> >     we have a record of it and if we need to expand the description or
> >     behavior later.
> >
> >
> > I'll be more happy if a comment about GET DIAGNOSTICS statement will be
> in user
> > space.
>
> I thought you would say that.  :-)  I don't see how this detail makes
> sense in the sections related to the syntax usage, so I looked in the
> section Porting from Oracle PL/SQL, and I don't see how it fits there
> either.
>
>
:)

just notice - sorry for my English

==Assign==
Using ":=" is preffered as assign statement due conformity with ADA
language (a plpgsql ancestor).


==GET DIAGNOSTICS==

Using "=" is highly preferred due conformity with ANSI/SQL


Regards

Pavel




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