From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Cc: easteregg@verfriemelt.org, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: plpgsql variable assignment not supporting distinct anymore
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 13:59:50 -0500
Message-ID: <1171052.1611341990@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
> pá 22. 1. 2021 v 14:41 odesílatel <easteregg@verfriemelt.org> napsal:
>> ERROR: syntax error at or near "DISTINCT"
>> LINE 8: _test := DISTINCT a FROM ( VALUES ( (true), ( true ) ) )...
> Using DISTINCT is not a good solution.
Yeah. It wouldn't be as painful to support this in the grammar
as it would be for UNION et al, so maybe we should just do it.
But I still find this to be mighty ugly plpgsql code.
regards, tom lane
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