Susan Cassidy <susan.cassidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The documentation says: > CASE search-expression > WHEN expression [, expression [ ... ]] THEN > statements > [ WHEN expression [, expression [ ... ]] THEN > statements > ... ] > [ ELSE > statements ] > END CASE; > And it repeats the "END CASE" phrase in other examples. > However, that doesn't work. You have to just use "END". > Shouldn't the documentation be fixed? No ... you're confusing the SQL CASE expression with the plpgsql CASE statement. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/functions-conditional.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/plpgsql-control-structures.html#PLPGSQL-CONDITIONALS It's a bit unfortunate that plpgsql's statement looks enough like the expression to cause confusion, yet not exactly like the expression. The decorated END is consistent with other things in plpgsql such as END IF, though. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
