pl/pgSQL doco patch

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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.

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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:

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 01:40 am, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

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.

I added it to the Oracle section because I found this syntax while porting an
Oracle stored proc to a pl/pgSQL function, and assumed it was an Oracle-ism.

Do other RDBMSs also allow you to qualify function_name.param_name to
distinguish a param from a column of the same name? If so, sure, I'll put it
somewhere more general (suggestions?), and Tom, I think that would lend
weight to allowing PostgreSQL to do it too (not because it's The Right Thing,
but for interoperability and ease of porting). Thoughts?

Regards, Philip.

--

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

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Add documentation about the inability of plpsql to use parameter names
that are the same as column names used in the function. I moved the
item up on the list of porting issues.

Patch applied to CVS HEAD and 8.1.X. Thanks.

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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.

--

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

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I think the Oracle porting section is the correct place for this item.
Thanks for the patch.

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Philip Yarra wrote:

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 01:40 am, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

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.

I added it to the Oracle section because I found this syntax while porting an
Oracle stored proc to a pl/pgSQL function, and assumed it was an Oracle-ism.

Do other RDBMSs also allow you to qualify function_name.param_name to
distinguish a param from a column of the same name? If so, sure, I'll put it
somewhere more general (suggestions?), and Tom, I think that would lend
weight to allowing PostgreSQL to do it too (not because it's The Right Thing,
but for interoperability and ease of porting). Thoughts?

Regards, Philip.

--

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

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