Re: parameters in functions and overlap with names of columns - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 02:20:00PM +0200, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:
> create or replace function(...
> declare
>   col1 varchar(32);

> Unfortunately I can't schema specify the column to avoid name
> overlap.

I think this is a limitation of plpgsql's parser; I tend to declare
local variables with an underscore prefix such as "_col1" in your
example.

> Is there another way other than just simply rename the variable?

I don't think so.

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