Use this statement to leave a compound statement or loop.

Syntax

LEAVE statement-label

Remarks

The LEAVE statement is a control statement that allows you to leave a labeled compound statement or a labeled loop. Execution resumes at the first statement after the compound statement or loop.

The compound statement that is the body of a procedure or trigger has an implicit label that is the same as the name of the procedure or trigger.

Permissions

None.

Side effects

None.

See also

• LOOP statement
• FOR statement
• BEGIN statement
• Using procedures, triggers, and batches

Standards and compatibility

Example

The following fragment shows how the LEAVE statement is used to leave a loop.

SET i = 1;
lbl:
LOOP
   INSERT
   INTO Counters ( number )
   VALUES ( i );
   IF i >= 10 THEN
      LEAVE lbl;
   END IF;
   SET i = i + 1
END LOOP lbl

The following example fragment uses LEAVE in a nested loop.

outer_loop:
LOOP
   SET i = 1;
   inner_loop:
   LOOP
      ...
      SET i = i + 1;
      IF i >= 10 THEN
         LEAVE outer_loop
      END IF
   END LOOP inner_loop
END LOOP outer_loop