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

From: Roberto Mello <roberto(dot)mello(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Shall we just get rid of plpgsql's RENAME?
Date: 2009-11-05 11:42:01
Message-ID: 42d652c70911050342u2d012964j642b3451db6605bb@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> 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

I can't remember any production code using it, and I think making it
an alias for ALIAS will just create confusion IMHO.

Roberto

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