On 11/25/2013 03:36 PM, David Johnston wrote: > Doh! > > IF / THEN / ELSE / ENDIF .... (concept, not syntax) > > That also does help to reinforce the point being made here... > > David J.
What point? PL/pgSQL has been in use for 14 years. During that entire time, it has always used a block-based syntax where only the end of the block takes semicolons; this applies not just to BEGIN ... END, but also to IF ... END IF, LOOP ... END LOOP, etc. It's a feature of the language. One might as well ask why Python doesn't take semicolons at the end of the line, or why Perl requires them, or why Java has all those squiggly brackets. PostgreSQL is very accepting of new procedural languages; you could always create your own, with whatever syntax you want. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
