Re: Schema variables - new implementation for Postgres 15

From: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Marcos Pegoraro <marcos(at)f10(dot)com(dot)br>
Cc: Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jaime Casanova <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec>, Erik Rijkers <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, Gilles Darold <gilles(at)darold(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Schema variables - new implementation for Postgres 15
Date: 2022-01-14 11:06:51
Message-ID: 20220114110651.7hc4naaimaqyy67h@jrouhaud
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Hi,

On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 07:49:09AM -0300, Marcos Pegoraro wrote:
> >
> > For example, if I define a variable called "relkind", then psql's \sv
> > meta-command is broken because the query it performs can't distinguish
> > between the column and the variable.
> >
> If variables use : as prefix you´ll never have these conflicts.
>
> select relkind from pg_class where relkind = :relkind

This is already used by psql client side variables, so this is not an option.

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