From: Wiebe Cazemier <halfgaar@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: unique names in variables and columns in plsql functions
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:33:55 +0200
Message-ID: <4427F7D3.3000103@gmail.com> (raw)
Hi,
In a plpgsl function, consider the following excerpt:
DECLARE
provider_id INTEGER;
BEGIN
provider_id := (SELECT provider_id FROM investment_products WHERE id =
my_new.investment_product_id);
END;
After a lot of trouble, I found out this line doesn't work correctly
with the variable name as it is. It doesn't give an error or anything,
it just retrieves some wrong value (probably NULL). When I change the
variable name to anything other than "provider_id", it works OK.
I was somewhat surprised to discover this. Can't Postgres determine that
the provider_id in the SELECT statement is not the same one as the variable?
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