Re: [PATCHES] pl/pgSQL doco patch

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Philip Yarra <philip(at)utiba(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] pl/pgSQL doco patch
Date: 2005-12-08 18:03:09
Message-ID: 200512081803.jB8I39M22478@candle.pha.pa.us
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I think the Oracle porting section is the correct place for this item.
Thanks for the patch.

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Philip Yarra wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 01:40 am, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > I am wondering we should make this warning more prominent - it would be
> > easily missed buried on the Oracle porting section, and I have seen
> > people caught by it lots of times.
>
> I added it to the Oracle section because I found this syntax while porting an
> Oracle stored proc to a pl/pgSQL function, and assumed it was an Oracle-ism.
>
> Do other RDBMSs also allow you to qualify function_name.param_name to
> distinguish a param from a column of the same name? If so, sure, I'll put it
> somewhere more general (suggestions?), and Tom, I think that would lend
> weight to allowing PostgreSQL to do it too (not because it's The Right Thing,
> but for interoperability and ease of porting). Thoughts?
>
> Regards, Philip.
>
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