Re: [HACKERS] merging some features from plpgsql2 project

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 7:44 AM, Marko Tiikkaja <marko@joh.to> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Peter Eisentraut
> <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>>
>> It's not like PL/pgSQL is the king of brevity.
>
>
> This is essentially saying "PL/PgSQL isn't perfect, so we shouldn't try and
> make it better".  I hear this argument a lot, and as long as people keep
> rejecting improvements for this reason they can keep saying it.  It's a
> self-fulfilling prophecy.

Agreed.  But adding language features, especially syntactical ones,
demands prudence; there is good reason to limit keywords like that.
What about:

pgsql.rows
pgsql.found
pgsql.sqlerrm
etc
as automatic variables (I think this was suggested upthread).
Conflicts with existing structures is of course an issue but I bet it
could be worked out.