2011/4/15 Jim Nasby <jim@nasby.net>:
> On Apr 14, 2011, at 4:20 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote:
>> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>> So far the most promising proposal I've seen seems to be to let
>>>> id mean the parameter called id only when it can't refer to
>>>> anything in the query.
>>
>>> Yeah, I've come round to that position too. I think allowing
>>> parameter names to be checked only after query names is probably
>>> the best answer.
>>
>> +1
>>
>> That seems the most useful and least surprising approach to me.
>
> As part of this, can we also allow specifying an alias for the function name? That would make it far less onerous to
disambiguateparameters. Unfortunately we obviously couldn't use AS as the keyword for this alias; maybe we could use
ALIASinstead? IE:
>
> CREATE FUNCTION function_with_really_really_descriptive_name (
> some_parameter int
> ) RETURNS int LANGUAGE SQL ALIAS fwrrdn AS $$
> SELECT fwrrdn.some_parameter
> $$;
> --
I see this can be problem for other languages - mainly for PLpgSQL.
There should be aliases supported too. And this small feature can be
terible when somebody will try to port your code to other platforms.
Personally I am thinking, so it isn't necessary
-1
Regards
Pavel Stehule
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