Re: PSQL commands: \quit_if, \quit_unless

On 11/29/2016 03:07 PM, Fabien COELHO wrote:
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> 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.
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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.)

cheers

andrew