Re: PL/PgSQL STRICT

On 12/21/12 4:39 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> What is the use-case for this?

Currently, the way to do this would be something like:

DECLARE
   _ok bool;
BEGIN
UPDATE foo .. RETURNING TRUE INTO STRICT _ok;

We have a lot of code like this, and I bet others do as well.

> Won't this result in the word STRICT
> becoming effectively reserved in contexts where it currently is not?

It will, which probably is not ideal if it can be avoided.  I also 
considered syntax like  INTO STRICT NULL,  but that felt a bit ugly.  It 
would be great if someone had any smart ideas about the syntax.


Regards,
Marko Tiikkaja