Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 01:03:30AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> So the initial evidence is that this was not an intentional change. >> Do we want to revert it? The behavior has been in the field now for >> more than a full release cycle --- all 7.4.* releases behave this way >> --- so one could argue that we should leave it be. > ... Personally I think it should be reverted. OK, next question: is this a bug fix we should back-patch into 7.4, or just change it in HEAD? > One thing: I couldn't find GET DIAGNOSTICS documentation for Oracle's > PL/SQL by googling around. Is this PL/pgSQL-specific stuff? It's in the SQL99 spec, though arguably plpgsql is misusing it. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
