I am wondering we should make this warning more prominent - it would be
easily missed buried on the Oracle porting section, and I have seen
people caught by it lots of times.
cheers
andrew
Philip Yarra wrote:
Hi, I supplied a minor doco patch relating to porting pl/SQL to pl/pgSQL:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-10/msg01295.php. Also
attached here.
Could someone please review and apply this for me?
Regards, Philip.
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--- doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml 28 Oct 2005 05:20:54 -0000
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state in temporary tables, instead.
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ You cannot use parameter names that are the same as columns
+ that are referenced in the function. Oracle does allow you to do this
+ if you qualify the parameter name as function_name.paramater_name
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
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