How much of this pain would go away if we changed over to the arguably correct (as in Or*cle does it that way) scoping for names, wherein the parser first tries to match a name against column names of tables of the current SQL statement, and only failing that looks to see if they are plpgsql variables?
-1 on this. If we're to have definite rules, I would prefer that stuff gets assumed to be a variable *first*, and then object definitions are only examined after the system fails to find a matching variable name.
That priority makes it much easier to debug a function than the Oracle way. --Josh -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
