Robert,
I wonder whether it would be possible to make PL/pgsql take :foo to mean the parameter named foo, and then provide an option to make that THE ONLY WAY to refer to the parameter foo. For backward-compatibility, and compatibility with (ahem) other database products, we probably don't want to remove the option to have foo mean... any damn thing named foo you can put your hands on. But it would be nice to at least have the option of disabling that behavior when compatibility is not an issue, and correctness is.
Thing is, anybody can institute their own naming convention. I've long used v_ as a prefix. Allowing : would save me some keystrokes, but that's about it.
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