From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Nikhil Sontakke <nikhil.sontakke@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Petr Jelinek <pjmodos@pjmodos.net>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Subject: Re: GRANT ON ALL IN schema
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:19:17 -0400
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Pavel Stehule wrote:
> why we need DO statement? Why not just $$ $$. Only string literal
> cannot be statement too, so DO is unnecessary.
>
> it can look like:
>
> $$
> FOR r IN SELECT ....
> END LOOP;
> $$;
>
> ???
>
>
Well, it's arguably somewhat un-SQL-ish. Every command in SQL is
introduced by a keyword verb.
I'm also not sure I want to be trying to execute any arbitrary string
that accidentally gets placed there because someone forgot to put a
keyword or accidentally deleted it.
But I'm not too dogmatic on the subject. What do others think?
cheers
andrew
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