Re: merging some features from plpgsql2 project

2017-01-11 15:37 GMT+01:00 Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>:

> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 7:44 AM, Marko Tiikkaja <marko(at)joh(dot)to> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Peter Eisentraut
> > <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> >>
> >> It's not like PL/pgSQL is the king of brevity.
> >
> >
> > This is essentially saying "PL/PgSQL isn't perfect, so we shouldn't try
> and
> > make it better". I hear this argument a lot, and as long as people keep
> > rejecting improvements for this reason they can keep saying it. It's a
> > self-fulfilling prophecy.
>
> Agreed. But adding language features, especially syntactical ones,
> demands prudence; there is good reason to limit keywords like that.
> What about:
>
pgsql.rows
> pgsql.found
> pgsql.sqlerrm
> etc
> as automatic variables (I think this was suggested upthread).
> Conflicts with existing structures is of course an issue but I bet it
> could be worked out.
>

Any implicit namespace can be problem. But we can continue in default
unlabeled namespace for auto variables with possibility to specify this
namespace explicitly.

Regards

Pavel