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

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EXIT 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).

For example, in the absence of more sophisticated LOOP syntaxes, you may choose to exit a loop using EXIT (which translates to LEAVE or BREAK in some dialects, and works the same way as Java's break):

Without a label

-- PL/SQL
LOOP
  i := i + 1;
  EXIT WHEN i > 10;
END LOOP;

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

With a label

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

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

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

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