On 11/29/16 5:08 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > On 11/29/2016 03:07 PM, Fabien COELHO wrote: >> >> >> I cannot remember a language with elseif* variants, and I find them >> quite ugly, so from an aethetical point of view I would prefer to >> avoid that... On the other hand having an "else if" capability makes >> sense (eg do something slightly different for various versions of pg), >> so that would suggest to stick to a simpler "if" without variants, if >> possible. > > FTR I *strongly* disagree with this. (And if you can't remember a > language that comes with them then you need to get out more. The Bourne > shell, where it's spelled "elif", and Ada are two obvious examples.)
Not to mention PL/pgSQL and Perl. -- -David da...@pgmasters.net -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
