Hello
http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/release-9-0.html
PL/pgSQL no longer allows variable names that match certain reserved
words (Tom Lane)
use double quotes
rec."open" = 32;
Regards
Pavel Stehule
2011/11/23 Chris McDonald <chrisjonmcdonald@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
> I am upgrading a system from postgresql 8.4.8 (fedora 13 x64) to postgresql 9.0.5 (fedora 15 x64). As I build a
databaseI've noticed that the following works on 8.4.8 but does not work on 9.0.5. Can someone tell me why this is not
legalsyntax in 9.0.5 but is legal in 8.4.8 please:
>
> ===snip===
> create type mytype
> as
> (
> somekey integer,
> open numeric(14, 2)
> );
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION myfunc(IN INTEGER, IN NUMERIC(14, 2))
> RETURNS VOID
> AS $$
> DECLARE
> somekey ALIAS FOR $1;
> rec mytype;
> BEGIN
> rec.somekey = somekey;
>
> -- 9.0.5 will fail at the dot character in the
> -- following line here with syntax error sqlstate 42601
> -- but 8.4.8 is happy.
> rec.open = 32;
> -- ^
>
> RETURN;
> END;
> $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;
> ===snip===
>
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