The jOOQ User Manual : SQL building : Procedural statements : CONTINUE statement

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CONTINUE statement

Applies to ❌ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

A safer way to jump to labels than via GOTO is to use EXIT (jumping out of a LOOP, or block, or other statement) or CONTINUE (skipping a LOOP iteration).

Just like Java's continue, the CONTINUE statement skips the rest of the current iteration in a loop and continues the next iteration. Some dialects use the ITERATE statement for this.

Without a label

-- PL/SQL
LOOP
  i := i + 1;
  CONTINUE WHEN i <= 10;
END LOOP;

// All dialects
loop(
  i.set(i.plus(1)),
  continueWhen(i.gt(10))
)

With a label

-- PL/SQL
<<label>>
LOOP
  i := i + 1;
  CONTINUE label WHEN i <= 10;
END LOOP;

// All dialects
Label label = label("label");
label.label(loop(
  i.set(i.plus(1)),
  continue(label).when(i.le(10))
))

Notice that continue is a reserved keyword in the Java language, so the jOOQ API cannot use it as a method name. We've suffixed such conflicts with an underscore: continue_().

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