Re: parameters in functions and overlap with names of columns

On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 16:01:58 +0200
Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/8/4 Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mail@webthatworks.it>:
> > I've
> >
> > create or replace function(...
> >
> > declare
> >  col1 varchar(32);
> > ...
> >
> >  create table pippo(
> >    col1 varchar(32),
> > ...
> >
> > Unfortunately I can't schema specify the column to avoid name
> > overlap.
> >
> > Is there another way other than just simply rename the variable?
>
> yes - the most common is an using of prefix '_' for local plpgsql
> variables. Other possibility is using qualified names.

Just to be sure... by qualified names you mean schema qualified name
or table qualified names in case of columns... right...

For a second I had the hope there was another way other than having a
col1, a _col1 and a __col1 too ;)

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Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
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