Re: PL/pgSQL RENAME functionality in TODOs

On 2/2/07, Jim Nasby <decibel@decibel.org> wrote:
> On Feb 1, 2007, at 5:08 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> > std. use rename only for triggers and variables new and old. It has
> > sense. I don't see sense for rename in clasic plpgsql functions.
> > There was one reason, rename unnamed $params. But currently plpgsql
> > support named params and this reason is obsolete.
>
> Unless things have changed it can be a real PITA to deal with plpgsql
> variables that share the same name as a field in a table. IIRC
> there's some cases where it's not even possible to unambiguously
> refer to the plpgsql variable instead of the field.
>
> For internal variables there's a decent work-around... just prefix
> all variables with something like v_. But that's pretty ugly for
> parameters... get_user(user_id int) is certainly a nicer interface
> than get_user(p_user_id int).
>
> But I think a way to get around that would be to RENAME the arguments
> in the DECLARE section, so user_id could become p_user_id under the
> covers.
>
> So perhaps there is still a point to RENAME after-all, at least for
> paramaters.
> --
> Jim Nasby                                            jim@nasby.net
> EnterpriseDB      http://enterprisedb.com      512.569.9461 (cell)

Parameters can be renamed in 8.2.
The only thing which does not work is renaming a variable immediately after
its declaration which is a useless functionality.

So, should we still consider it a ToDo?

-- Imad
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