stored procedure compilation error checking

I am fairly new to Postgres. I noticed that the stored procedures
written in pgplsql are checked only for syntax errors and nothing more
at compile time. It does not even do that basic error checking like if
the table/field names or variable names used in the procedure are even
valid. This causes ugly compile time like error at run time.

Is there a configuration setting to increase the error checking level or
any tool available to do the same.

Thank you,

Arun M