Re: updated patch for foreach stmt

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>
Date: 2011-02-16T04:29:39Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> On 02/15/2011 08:59 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> Anyhoo, forcing the explicit ARRAY keyword in there seems like pretty
>> cheap future-proofing to me.  YMMV.

> If this is the syntax that makes you do things like:
>      FOREACH foo IN ARRAY ARRAY[1,2,3]
> I have to say I find that pretty darn ugly still.

Yeah, that was the argument against requiring ARRAY.  So it comes down
to whether you think we need future-proofing here.  I can't immediately
see any reason for us to need a keyword right there, but ...

			regards, tom lane