Re: Out parameters handling

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Rod Taylor <rod.taylor@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It wouldn't be so bad if you could assign internal and external column names.

> This is a good point.  Uglifying the parameter names is sort of OK for
> input parameters, but is much more annoying for output parameters.

How much of this pain would go away if we changed over to the arguably
correct (as in Or*cle does it that way) scoping for names, wherein the
parser first tries to match a name against column names of tables of the
current SQL statement, and only failing that looks to see if they are
plpgsql variables?
        regards, tom lane