Re: pl/pgsql feature request: shorthand for argument and local variable references

On 11/17/20 15:18, Jack Christensen wrote:
>> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION very_long_name(par1 int)
>> RETURNS int AS $$
>> #routine_label lnm
>> BEGIN
>>   RAISE NOTICE '%', lnm.par1;

Could that be somehow shoehorned into the existing ALIAS syntax, maybe as

DECLARE
  lnm ALIAS FOR ALL very_long_name.*;

or something?

(And would it be cool if Table C.1 [1] had some sort of javascript-y
filtering on reservedness categories, for just such kinds of bikeshedding?)

Regards,
-Chap


[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/sql-keywords-appendix.html#KEYWORDS-TABLE