From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: plpgsql vs. SQL in stored procedures
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 03:31:01 -0500
Message-ID: <m3r7v9zad6.fsf@wolfe.cbbrowne.com> (raw)
References: <20040331000808.7aaedc33@stige.webthatworks.it>
mail@webthatworks.it (Ivan Sergio Borgonovo) wrote:
> Is there a way to declare variables and use IF in plain SQL, not in
> plpgsql inside stored procedures?
The forthcoming support for recursive queries using a WITH clause
might provide, after a fashion, a way to declare variables.
As for IF, there is a functional equivalent to it in the form of the
SQL standard CASE statement.
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