Re: proposal: plpgsql - Assert statement

On 09/05/2014 05:21 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> 
> *shrug*  Doing it in SQL would probably break more stuff.  I'm trying to
> contain the damage.  And arguably, this is mostly only useful in PL/PgSQL.

I've wanted assertions in SQL enough that I often write trivial wrappers
around `raise` in PL/PgSQL for use in `CASE` statements etc.

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