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Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:19:17 -0400
From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
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Subject: Re: GRANT ON ALL IN schema
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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