On 17.12.2010 21:04, Robert Haas wrote:
> Unfortunately, there are likely to be a limited number of such
> keywords available. While I agree it's helpful to have a clear
> distinction between what FOR does and what FOREACH does, it's wholly
> conventional here and won't be obvious without careful reading of the
> documentation. If we had FOR and FOREACH and FOREVERY and, uh,
> FORGET, it'd quickly become notational soup. I am still wondering if
> there's a way to make something like "FOR ELEMENT e IN a" work. I
> suspect we'd be less likely to paint ourselves into a corner that way.
As a side note, Oracle has FORALL, which is a kind of bulk update
operation over a collection type. So whatever we choose, not FORALL...
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