On 10/13/2005 03:24:23 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
"Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 01:30:56PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Basically, DECLARE introduces a new name scope that wouldn't be
there
>> if you didn't say DECLARE. Without some bizarre reinterpretation
of the
>> meaning of a DECLARE at the start of a function, variables
automatically
>> created by plpgsql are going to be in an outer scope surrounding
that of
>> the first DECLARE.
BTW, another issue here is that if we did merge the first DECLARE with
the scope of auto-declared variables, it would be a non backwards
compatible change.
How about merging only the auto-declared function arguments into the
first DECLARE? Down side would be that I can see that causing
an actual error instead of a warning if somebody wants to shadow
one of the function arguments with their own declaration.
Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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P.S.
Seems that as of today I can no longer write Bruce Momjian
<pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>. :-( This showed up in a bounce:
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