On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Ryan Bradetich <rbradet...@gmail.com> writes: >> This is one of the things I wanted to start looking at for 8.5. >> My idea was to optionally use : or @ (not sure which is more popular) to >> specify this token is only a variable. > > This whole line of thought is really a terrible idea IMHO. plpgsql is > supposed to follow Oracle's pl/sql syntax, not invent random syntax of > its own. I believe that 80% of the problems here are occurring because > we used a crude substitution method that got the priorities backwards > from the way Oracle does it.
Fair Enough. I just hope what every solution the community decides upon solves this problem. It is a very annoying problem to track down and I tend to get even more agitated when I figure out this is the problem. I do not want to distract from the release efforts, so I will withhold further comments until the 8.5 development cycle. Thanks, - Ryan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
