Good day, My name is John Worsley, I'm one of the authors of the new O'Reilly PostgrSQL book. We're wrapping up the PL/pgSQL chapter's technical edit right now, but there are a couple of concerns that I was hoping someone might be able to help with.
Mainly, the existing documentation on the RENAME statement seems inaccurate; it states that you can re-name variables, records, or rowtypes. However, in practice, our tests show that attempting to RENAME valid variables with: RENAME varname TO newname; ...yeilds a PL/pgSQL parse error, inexplicably. If I try the same syntax on a non-declared variable, it actually says "there is no variable" with that name in the current block, so...I think something odd is happening. :) I believe we have only gotten RENAME to work with either the NEW or OLD record variables when using PL/pgSQL with triggers, but the documentation suggests that this should be a general-purpose statement. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. :) The RENAME statement seems kind of odd, since it seems that you could just as easily declare a general variable with the right name to begin with, and maybe that's why this isn't apparently documented anywhere else? I just want to make sure the documentation is both accurate and complete. Kind Regards, Jw. -- John Worsley, Command Prompt, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] by way of [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
