On 11/5/2009 9:51 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
>> Did we get the keyword from anyplace? Is it an Oracleism or MSSQLism
>> or anything?
>
> Hmm, that is a good question. I had assumed it was an Oracle-ism,
> but it doesn't seem to be described anywhere in my copy of the PL/SQL
> manual (which is a bit old but newer than plpgsql...) I dunno where
> Jan got it from.
And I don't remember why it was necessary or seemed like a good idea.
Jan
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