Tom Lane wrote:
> I just noticed that when the BY option was added to plpgsql FOR
> loops, no real error checking was done.  If you specify a zero step
> value, you'll have an infinite loop.  If you specify a negative
> value, the loop variable will increment in the "wrong direction"
> until integer overflow occurs.  Neither of these behaviors seem
> desirable in the least.

That seems to be fairly normal proramming language behavior.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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