2013/9/23 Marko Tiikkaja <ma...@joh.to>

> On 9/23/13 11:12 AM, I wrote:
>
>> On 9/23/13 11:01 AM, Amit Khandekar wrote:
>>
>>> The assert levels sound a bit like a user might be confused by these
>>> levels
>>> being present at both places: In the RAISE syntax itself, and the assert
>>> GUC level. But  I like the syntax. How about keeping the ASSERT keyword
>>> optional ? When we have WHEN, we anyway mean that we ware asserting that
>>> this condition must be true. So something like this :
>>>
>>> RAISE [ level ] 'format' [, expression [, ... ]] [ USING option =
>>> expression [, ... ] ];
>>> RAISE [ level ] condition_name [ USING option = expression [, ... ] ];
>>> RAISE [ level ] SQLSTATE 'sqlstate' [ USING option = expression [, ... ]
>>> ];
>>> RAISE [ level ] USING option = expression [, ... ];
>>> *RAISE [ ASSERT ] WHEN bool_expression;*
>>> RAISE ;
>>>
>>
>> I'd expect RAISE .. WHEN ..;  to be the same as:
>>
>>     IF .. THEN
>>       RAISE;
>>     END IF;
>>
>
> Should've probably proofread that one.  I meant:
>
>   RAISE WHEN true;
>
> would be equivalent to
>
>   IF true THEN
>     RAISE;
>   END IF;
>

we use a RAISE only keyword statement for resignaling, so it can be really
confusing

Pavel



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> Regards,
> Marko Tiikkaja
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