Re: exception handling and CONTINUE

Marcin Krawczyk escribió:
> Hi all. Can anyone tell me if there's a way to use CONTINUE clause outside
> the loop ?
> An example :
> 
> FOR a IN SELECT * FROM xxx
> LOOP
> 
> INSERT INTO yyy VALUES (a.***, ..)
> 
> END LOOP;
> 
> EXCEPTION WHEN unique_violation THEN CONTINUE;

Try something like this:

for a in select * from xxx
loop begin   insert into yyy values (...) exception when unique_violation then   null;    -- noop, just for clarity
end;
end loop;

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