Re: Shall we just get rid of plpgsql's RENAME? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Roberto Mello
Subject Re: Shall we just get rid of plpgsql's RENAME?
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Msg-id 42d652c70911050342u2d012964j642b3451db6605bb@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Shall we just get rid of plpgsql's RENAME?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> According to
> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/plpgsql-declarations.html#PLPGSQL-DECLARATION-RENAMING-VARS
> the RENAME declaration in plpgsql has been known broken since PG 7.3.
> Nobody has bothered to fix it.  Shall we just rip it out?

+1

I can't remember any production code using it, and I think making it
an alias for ALIAS will just create confusion IMHO.

Roberto


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