Re: PL/pgSQL 'i = i + 1' Syntax

On May 16, 2006, at 16:53, Mark Dilger wrote:

> Sorry, I meant to say that it should only be a no-op according to  
> the language
> specification, as I understand it.  The fact that it works suggests  
> to me that
> the implementation of PL/pgsql has been modified (or broken?).   
> Whether the
> change is a bug or an intentional feature change, I don't know.

Ah, yes, I agree, and that's why I posted my query.

> mark
>
> P.S.,  Looking through the documentation, I don't immediately see  
> the spec for
> how a regular '=' is supposed to work, but assignment is documented  
> as using the
> ':=' syntax and says nothing about '='.

Exactly. But I use = all the time for comparision:
  IF FOUND = TRUE THEN      ....  END IF

Best,

David