Neil,
> In PL/PgSQL, "END LOOP" is used to terminate loop blocks, and "END IF"
> is used to terminate IF blocks. This is needlessly verbose: we could
> simply accept "END" in both cases without syntactic ambiguity. I'd like
> to make this change, so that END can be used to terminate any kind of
> block. There's no need to remove support for the present syntax, of
> course, so there's no backward compatibility concern. Oracle's PL/SQL
> does require "END IF" and "END LOOP", but folks interested in maximum
> compatibility can always use those forms if they like.
No problem from me. Since the parser checks for block closure for all
block types, I can't see how this would be a problem.
--
--Josh
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
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