Re: [PATCH] 8.5 plpgsql change for named notation: treat word following AS keyword as label v3

2009/9/14 Steve Prentice <prentice@cisco.com>:
> On Sep 13, 2009, at 10:22 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>
>> 2009/9/14 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>>>
>>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>> So, I guess I'm sadly left feeling that we should probably reject this
>>>> patch.  Anyone want to argue otherwise?
>>>
>>> +1.  I'm really hoping to get something done about the plpgsql parsing
>>> situation before 8.5 is out, so this should be a dead end anyway.
>>>
>>
>> I have a WIP patch for integration main SQL parser to plpgsql. I'll
>> send it to this weekend.
>
> I certainly don't mind the patch getting rejected and agree that refactoring
> the plpgsql parser is probably the best approach to this issue. However, I
> think it would be more than a little strange to ship the named notation
> feature without a solution for this problem. For reference, the problem is
> that the function below causes a compile error because of the way plpgsql
> blindly does variable replacement:
>
> create function fun1(pDisplayName text) returns void as $$
> begin
>    perform fun2(pDisplayName as pDisplayName);
> -- Above line compiles as:
> --  SELECT  fun2( $1  as  $1 )
> end
> $$ language plpgsql;
>

I am sure, so this this will be solved in next commitfest. This
problem is related only to plpgsql. Other PL languages are well,
because doesn't try to emulate SQL parser.

Pavel

> -Steve
>