From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)skype(dot)net> |
Cc: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>, Douglas McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org>, Mark Dilger <pgsql(at)markdilger(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: PL/pgSQL 'i = i + 1' Syntax |
Date: | 2006-05-19 21:46:15 |
Message-ID: | 4328.1148075175@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)skype(dot)net> writes:
> hel kenal peval, R, 2006-05-19 kell 16:12, kirjutas Jim C. Nasby:
>> IIRC, Oracle handles this by allowing you to prefix variables with the
>> name of the function.
> what happens if your function name is the same as some table name or
> local record variable name ? would it still bite newcomers ?
Yeah. Since functions and tables have independent namespaces in PG
(dunno about Oracle), this didn't seem like much of a solution to me.
I think we should just recommend a coding practice such as _ prefix
for local variables, and leave it at that.
regards, tom lane
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