Re: [REVIEW] Patch for cursor calling with named parameters

On 14.12.2011 12:31, Yeb Havinga wrote:
> On 2011-12-13 18:34, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Heikki Linnakangas<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>>> Attached is a patch with those changes. I also I removed a few of the
>>> syntax error regression tests, that seemed excessive, plus some general
>>> naming and comment fiddling. I'll apply this tomorrow, if it still looks
>>> good to me after sleeping on it.
>> However, I'm still concerned about whether this approach gives
>> reasonable error messages in cases where the error would be
>> detected during parse analysis of the rearranged statement.
>> The regression test examples don't cover such cases, and I'm
>> too busy right now to apply the patch and check for myself.
>> What happens for example if a named parameter's value contains
>> a misspelled variable reference, or a type conflict?
>
> I tested this and seems to be ok:
>
> regression=# select namedparmcursor_test1(20000, 20000) as "Should be
> false",
> namedparmcursor_test1(20, 20) as "Should be true";
> ERROR: column "yy" does not exist
> LINE 1: SELECT x AS param1, yy AS param12;

For the record, the caret pointing to the position is there, too. As in:

regression=# do $$
declare  c1 cursor (param1 int, param2 int) for select 123;
begin  open c1(param2 := xxx, param1 := 123);
end;
$$;
ERROR:  column "xxx" does not exist
LINE 1: SELECT 123 AS param1, xxx AS param2;                              ^
QUERY:  SELECT 123 AS param1, xxx AS param2;
CONTEXT:  PL/pgSQL function "inline_code_block" line 5 at OPEN

I think that's good enough. It would be even better if we could print 
the original OPEN statement as the context, as in:

ERROR:  column "xxx" does not exist
LINE 4: OPEN c1(param2 := xxx, param1 := 123);                          ^

but it didn't look quite like that before the patch either, and isn't 
specific to this patch but more of a general usability issue in PL/pgSQL.

Committed.

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