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Re: Shall we just get rid of plpgsql's RENAME?

Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>

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From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 2009-11-05T10:18:22Z
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Tom Lane 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 on that - I don't think I have seen it used in any production code I 
came accross in a long time.


Stefan