Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of lun abr 18 09:33:06 -0300 2011: > I don't much like Jim's syntax suggestion (the alias really ought to > be declared within the function body, I think, not added to the CREATE > FUNCTION statement) but I don't necessarily think it's a bad idea. > What would be even better, in my view, is having a short alias that is > defined by default, but all previous proposals in this vein have been > shot down by Tom and Andrew. As a practical matter, though, I think > what Jim is talking about speaks to a real need - people want to make > SQL function names long and descriptive, but they do NOT want to spell > out that long function name 16 times inside the function body.
plpgsql has the #option thing in functions; why can't we have something similar in SQL functions? CREATE FUNCTION function_with_really_really_descriptive_name ( some_parameter int ) RETURNS int LANGUAGE SQL AS $$ #option function_alias fwrrdn SELECT fwrrdn.some_parameter $$; Not necessarily that exact syntax. -- Álvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers