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Comments on Is there an equivalent way of returning early in a MySQL stored procedure?

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Is there an equivalent way of returning early in a MySQL stored procedure?

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In programming instead of arrowcode where one has many layers of indented if statements, you can return a result as soon as possible. So instead of,

if
   if
   end if
end if

It looks like

if
 return
end if
if
 return
end if

A MySQL stored procedure does not return a value, is there an equivalent way of returning early if only to make the code easier to read?

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I don't know any SQL at all, so credits go to the top answer of Mysql - How to quit/exit from stored procedure on StackOverflow.


You can simply wrap the code in a label and LEAVE the label, ex.

CREATE PROCEDURE Example_Proc()
proc_label:BEGIN
     IF <condition> THEN
          LEAVE proc_label;
     END IF;

     #proceed
END;
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Alexei‭ wrote over 3 years ago

Oh, it is way uglier than in T-SQL which allows to simply RETURN (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/language-elements/return-transact-sql?view=sql-server-ver15)