Re: allowed variable names in functions?

From: "A B" <gentosaker(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: allowed variable names in functions?
Date: 2008-06-30 10:44:31
Message-ID: dbbf25900806300344o4cb6d6a9i9ba2beba8c668c60@mail.gmail.com
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By changing c2,c3,etc. to something else xc2,xc3, etc. it worked!
So was the problem that I refered to the same names in the SELECT statement?

2008/6/30 A B <gentosaker(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> Then my assumption was wrong.
> Here is the entire function and it fails with the names
> c2,c2div,c3,c3div, but if names are changed, it works!
> (by works I mean I get the "hello" lines printed) There is nothing
> wrong with the select statement either, that works fine if I run it
> stand-alone, or with the names of c2,c2div,c3,c3div changed.
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION foo(pid_ INTEGER) RETURNS void AS $$
> DECLARE
> c2 REAL;
> c2div REAL;
> c3 REAL;
> c3div REAL;
> BEGIN
> FOR tmp IN SELECT id,c2,c3 FROM Master WHERE pid=pid_ AND c3 !=0 LOOP

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