Re: WIP: Allow SQL-language functions to reference parameters by parameter name

On Mar 25, 2011, at 9:22 PM, Joshua Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> Tom,
> 
>> Personally I'd vote for *not* having any such dangerous semantics as
>> that. We should have learned better by now from plpgsql experience.
>> I think the best idea is to throw error for ambiguous references,
>> period. 
> 
> As a likely heavy user of this feature, I agree with Tom here.  I really don't want the column being silently preferred in SQL functions, when PL/pgSQL functions are throwing an error.  I'd end up spending hours debugging this.
> 
> Also, I don't understand why this would be a dump/reload issue if $1 and $2 continue to work.
> 

Because an identifier that previously referred unambiguously to a column might now be ambiguous, if there is a parameter with the same name.

...Robert