Re: pl/pgSQL doco patch

I am wondering we should make this warning more prominent - it would be
easily missed buried on the Oracle porting section, and I have seen
people caught by it lots of times.

cheers

andrew

Philip Yarra wrote:

>Hi, I supplied a minor doco patch relating to porting pl/SQL to pl/pgSQL:
>http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-10/msg01295.php. Also
>attached here.
>
>Could someone please review and apply this for me?
>
>Regards, Philip.
>
>
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Index: doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml,v
>retrieving revision 1.79
>diff -c -r1.79 plpgsql.sgml
>*** doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml    21 Oct 2005 05:11:23 -0000    1.79
>--- doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml    28 Oct 2005 05:20:54 -0000
>***************
>*** 3132,3137 ****
>--- 3132,3144 ----
>         state in temporary tables, instead.
>        </para>
>       </listitem>
>+      <listitem>
>+       <para>
>+        You cannot use parameter names that are the same as columns
>+        that are referenced in the function. Oracle does allow you to do this
>+        if you qualify the parameter name as function_name.paramater_name
>+       </para>
>+      </listitem>
>      </itemizedlist>
>     </para>
>
>
>