Re: proposal: plpgsql - Assert statement

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> On 11/19/2014 06:35 AM, Simon Riggs wrote:
>> I seem to share the same opinion with Andrew: its not going to hurt to
>> include this, but its not gonna cause dancing in the streets either. I
>> would characterize that as 2 very neutral and unimpressed people, plus
>> 3 in favour. Which seems enough to commit.

> That's about right, although I would put it a bit stronger than that. 
> But if we're the only people unimpressed I'm not going to object further.

FWIW, I would vote against it also.  I do not find this to be a natural
extension of RAISE; it adds all sorts of semantic issues.  (In particular,
what is the evaluation order of the WHEN versus the other subexpressions
of the RAISE?)
        regards, tom lane