Re: parameters in functions and overlap with names of columns

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mail(at)webthatworks(dot)it>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: parameters in functions and overlap with names of columns
Date: 2009-08-04 14:50:33
Message-ID: 20090804145033.GD6494@alvh.no-ip.org
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Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 16:01:58 +0200
> Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > 2009/8/4 Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mail(at)webthatworks(dot)it>:

> > > Is there another way other than just simply rename the variable?
> >
> > yes - the most common is an using of prefix '_' for local plpgsql
> > variables. Other possibility is using qualified names.
>
> Just to be sure... by qualified names you mean schema qualified name
> or table qualified names in case of columns... right...

In this case I think it also means you can qualify the variable names
with the function name; and/or declare named blocks inside the function,
and qualify the variables with the block name.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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