Re: PL/pgSQL: SELECT INTO EXACT

Matt Miller <mattm@epx.com> writes:
> On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 17:52 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I dislike the choice of "EXACT", too, as it (a) adds a new reserved word
>> and (b) doesn't seem to convey quite what is happening anyway.  Not sure
>> about a better word though ... anyone?

> I can attach a patch that supports [EXACT | NOEXACT].

Somehow, proposing two new reserved words instead of one doesn't seem
very responsive to my gripe :-(.

If you think that this should be a global option instead of a
per-statement one, something like the (undocumented) #option hack might
be a good way to specify it; that would give it per-function scope,
which seems reasonable.

    create function myfn(...) returns ... as $$
        #option select_into_1_row
        declare ...
    $$ language plpgsql;

            regards, tom lane