OK, so renaming does not work in the same block.
You can rename a vairable in a nested block and thats why it works for OLD/NEW.
BTW, what is the purpose behind it? Declaring a variable in a block
and quickly renaming it does not make sense to me.
--Imad
www.EnterpriseDB.com
On 1/31/07, Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
URL added to TODO. (I didn't have URLs in there at the time).
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Tom Lane wrote:
> imad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > "Fix RENAME to work on variables other than OLD/NEW"
> > I can rename just any variable declared in a PL block apart from
> > OLD/NEW. Is the TODOs list out of sync or I am missing the point here?
>
> Really? It looks pretty broken to me still:
>
> regression=# create function foo() returns int as $$
> regression$# declare
> regression$# x int := 1;
> regression$# rename x to y;
> regression$# begin
> regression$# return y;
> regression$# end;$$ language plpgsql;
> ERROR: syntax error at or near "x"
> LINE 4: rename x to y;
> ^
>
> See old discussion here:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2002-03/msg00591.php
>
> regards, tom lane
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