minor cleanup in plpgsql.sgml

Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

!     SELECT INTO users_rec * FROM users WHERE user_id=3;
--- 986,993 ----
!     SELECT * FROM users WHERE user_id=3 INTO users_rec;

Why do you want to change the example to disagree with the advice given
just above?

: At present, the INTO clause can appear almost anywhere in the SELECT
: statement, but it is recommended to place it immediately after the
: SELECT key word as depicted above. Future versions of PL/pgSQL may be
: less forgiving about placement of the INTO clause.

regards, tom lane

On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 11:24, Tom Lane wrote:

Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

!     SELECT INTO users_rec * FROM users WHERE user_id=3;
--- 986,993 ----
!     SELECT * FROM users WHERE user_id=3 INTO users_rec;

Why do you want to change the example to disagree with the advice given
just above?

: At present, the INTO clause can appear almost anywhere in the SELECT
: statement, but it is recommended to place it immediately after the
: SELECT key word as depicted above. Future versions of PL/pgSQL may be
: less forgiving about placement of the INTO clause.

regards, tom lane

guess that was an unconscious change made on my part. I tend to use that
format for writing functions since I feel it is more clear to read.

Actually if I had my druthers I'd probably remove that "advice"
entirely, but either way that change can be disregarded, but removal of
the "full_name varchar" line should still be done.

Robert Treat
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Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

Marcos Truchado <mtruchado@telefonica.net> reported this on -docs
yesterday.

I submitted a patch for this typo to -patches 5 days ago.

-Neil

Tom Lane writes:

Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

!     SELECT INTO users_rec * FROM users WHERE user_id=3;
--- 986,993 ----
!     SELECT * FROM users WHERE user_id=3 INTO users_rec;

Why do you want to change the example to disagree with the advice given
just above?

: At present, the INTO clause can appear almost anywhere in the SELECT
: statement, but it is recommended to place it immediately after the
: SELECT key word as depicted above. Future versions of PL/pgSQL may be
: less forgiving about placement of the INTO clause.

Well, that position is a strange choice. The standard syntax of SELECT
INTO in embedded SQL is

SELECT a, b, c INTO :x, :y, :z FROM ...

This should probably be consistent.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:

Well, that position is a strange choice. The standard syntax of SELECT
INTO in embedded SQL is
SELECT a, b, c INTO :x, :y, :z FROM ...
This should probably be consistent.

Well, I'm not wedded to the current recommendation, but we'll never be
able to clean up the current weird-hack implementation of SELECT INTO
until we can freeze the syntax somehow. The above looks at least as
reasonable as what we're currently recommending ...

regards, tom lane

Sorry Neil. I thought I recalled you submitting a similar patch, but
must have missed it in the archives and didn't see the change reflected
in cvs so assmeme'd that your change was in a different place.. :-(

Robert Treat

On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 14:04, Neil Conway wrote:

Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

Marcos Truchado <mtruchado@telefonica.net> reported this on -docs
yesterday.

I submitted a patch for this typo to -patches 5 days ago.

-Neil

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On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 14:24, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

Tom Lane writes:

Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

!     SELECT INTO users_rec * FROM users WHERE user_id=3;
--- 986,993 ----
!     SELECT * FROM users WHERE user_id=3 INTO users_rec;

Why do you want to change the example to disagree with the advice given
just above?

: At present, the INTO clause can appear almost anywhere in the SELECT
: statement, but it is recommended to place it immediately after the
: SELECT key word as depicted above. Future versions of PL/pgSQL may be
: less forgiving about placement of the INTO clause.

Well, that position is a strange choice. The standard syntax of SELECT
INTO in embedded SQL is

SELECT a, b, c INTO :x, :y, :z FROM ...

This should probably be consistent.

Funny. That's a good argument for doing it that way, but almost the same
argument I make for putting the INTO at the end: so as to not confuse
people with the "SELECT a,b,c INTO newtable FROM oldtable" sql syntax.
In either case ISTM the existing recommendation is flawed.

Robert Treat
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Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

Funny. That's a good argument for doing it that way, but almost the same
argument I make for putting the INTO at the end: so as to not confuse
people with the "SELECT a,b,c INTO newtable FROM oldtable" sql syntax.
In either case ISTM the existing recommendation is flawed.

Come to think of it, I think that the motivation for the existing
recommendation was precisely to have a syntax that is visibly different
from the SQL-level SELECT INTO, with an eye to eventually allowing the
SQL construct to work too. This may not be very important though,
considering that SELECT INTO is deprecated in favor of CREATE TABLE AS.

regards, tom lane

Ummm - surely the original was correct?

Chris

Robert Treat wrote:

The reported correction was removing the superfluous full_name varchar (which
Neil Conway also reported a few days back). When i was rewriting the
function, I subconsciously switched the SELECT INTO statement to the (IMHO)
more legible syntax, though nothing was wrong with the previous version of
that statement.

Robert Treat

On Tuesday 25 November 2003 20:30, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

Ummm - surely the original was correct?

Chris

Robert Treat wrote:

Marcos Truchado <mtruchado@telefonica.net> reported this on -docs
yesterday.

Robert Treat

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RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml,v
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diff -c -r1.29 plpgsql.sgml
*** plpgsql.sgml	12 Nov 2003 22:47:47 -0000	1.29
--- plpgsql.sgml	25 Nov 2003 14:12:50 -0000
***************
*** 986,994 ****
<programlisting>
DECLARE
users_rec RECORD;
-     full_name varchar;
BEGIN
!     SELECT INTO users_rec * FROM users WHERE user_id=3;

IF users_rec.homepage IS NULL THEN
-- user entered no homepage, return "http://"
--- 986,993 ----
<programlisting>
DECLARE
users_rec RECORD;
BEGIN
!     SELECT * FROM users WHERE user_id=3 INTO users_rec;

IF users_rec.homepage IS NULL THEN
-- user entered no homepage, return "http://&quot;

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Tom Lane wrote:

Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

Funny. That's a good argument for doing it that way, but almost the same
argument I make for putting the INTO at the end: so as to not confuse
people with the "SELECT a,b,c INTO newtable FROM oldtable" sql syntax.
In either case ISTM the existing recommendation is flawed.

Come to think of it, I think that the motivation for the existing
recommendation was precisely to have a syntax that is visibly different
from the SQL-level SELECT INTO, with an eye to eventually allowing the
SQL construct to work too. This may not be very important though,
considering that SELECT INTO is deprecated in favor of CREATE TABLE AS.

I have removed the recommentation:

<para>
The <literal>INTO</> clause can appear almost anywhere in the <command>SELECT</command>
statement.
</para>

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