Re: Using "exit" to bring "goto" functionality.

> pavel.stehule@gmail.com wrote:
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>> bryn@yugabyte.com wrote:
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>> As it happens, Oracle's PL/SQL has a "goto" statement. But PL/pgSQL does not. (I assume that this is because "goto" is considered a bad thing.) But PL/SQL programmers do use it. However, the doc section:
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> The reason why PL/pgSQL has not "goto" statement is mainly technological. PL/pgSQL is an interpreter of high level commands.  For this kind of interpreter the "goto" - unstructured jump cannot be effectively implemented. PL/pgSQL is very simple, and relatively fast (expressions are slow due evaluation by SQL executor), but "goto" cannot be implemented there. Interpreter of PL/pgSQL is very different from the more usual p-code interpreter.

It’s interesting to know that the reason that PL/pgSQL doesn’t support “goto” is an implementation restriction rather than a purist stance. Thanks!

I mentioned PL/SQL only to say that it does not support the premature exit from a block statement that PL/pgSQL _does_ support (and document). I accept, now, that I’ll never know the rationale for this.