Oh, I totally forgot to mention that I ran the scripts with DbVisualizer
against a 16.1 (Debian 16.1-1.pgdg110+1) server using PostgreSQL JDBC
Driver 42.6.0 .
Am 26.02.2024 um 16:51 schrieb Thiemo Kellner:
> Hi
>
> My names can contain a special character (⠒), e.g. to separate the
> donator object from the name or the name from the type. Typically, I use
> this with foreign keys, e.g. table PARENT has the surrogate key ID, the
> table CHILD would then have the column PARENT⠒ID. That way, I can use
> the underscore to segment column names like yet_another_column_name. I
> do not like camel-case in that case because names do not have to be case
> sensitive.
>
> However, I want to create a (trigger) function to impose data
> consistency. For that purpose, I try to copy the data type of a PL/pgSQL
> variable from the base object, a view in that case. Trying so, I get the
> following error on installation of the function.
>
> V⠒NODE_TYPE⠒NAME NODE⠒V.NODE_TYPE⠒NAME%type := null;
>
> Syntax error at "%" … invalid type name. If I use the actual type of the
> column, all is fine.
>
> V⠒NODE_TYPE⠒NAME text;
>
> Please find attached script files of objects directly involved in the
> trigger function.
>
> Is there something, I am doing wrongly?
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Thiemo