Re: merging some features from plpgsql2 project

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Marko Tiikkaja <marko(at)joh(dot)to>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Joel Jacobson <joel(at)trustly(dot)com>
Subject: Re: merging some features from plpgsql2 project
Date: 2017-01-08 06:03:51
Message-ID: CAFj8pRB_J7pAE6=acNO=aWdkRAZkyt3FhpqrUROvs-2JTj1FLw@mail.gmail.com
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>> BTW, I do wish you could change the label of the scope that arguments
>> went into, so that you could use that label to refer to function
>> parameters. If we allowed that it'd perhaps be the best of both worlds:
>> you'd be guaranteed access to all auto variables and parameters, and that
>> access wouldn't need to be tied to the function name (which can be both
>> painful and error prone).
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> We can talk about compiler directive.
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> PRAGMA auto_variables_label(xxxx) -- require function scope only
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If we know a list of all auto variables, then it can be on function or
block level - it can create aliases.

Regards

Pavel

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