On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:51 AM, David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com> wrote:
> On Apr 8, 2011, at 8:05 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
>
>>> same mechanism works well in plpgsql and nobody requested a some
>>> special shortcut.
>>
>> I did. That mechanism sucks. But I think we're committed to doing
>> what the standard and/or Oracle do, so oh well.
>
> I think I've worked around that in PL/pgSQL using ALIAS…
I've worked around it, too, using various techniques. That doesn't
mean it doesn't suck.
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