Re: Shall we just get rid of plpgsql's RENAME?

From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Shall we just get rid of plpgsql's RENAME?
Date: 2009-11-05 10:18:22
Message-ID: 4AF2A66E.30101@kaltenbrunner.cc
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Tom Lane wrote:
> According to
> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/plpgsql-declarations.html#PLPGSQL-DECLARATION-RENAMING-VARS
> the RENAME declaration in plpgsql has been known broken since PG 7.3.
> Nobody has bothered to fix it. Shall we just rip it out?

+1 on that - I don't think I have seen it used in any production code I
came accross in a long time.

Stefan

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