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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Philip Yarra <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] pl/pgSQL doco patch
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:03:09 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>


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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