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

Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com>

From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-11-05T15:55:39Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 11/5/2009 9:51 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
>> Did we get the keyword from anyplace? Is it an Oracleism or MSSQLism
>> or anything?
> 
> Hmm, that is a good question.  I had assumed it was an Oracle-ism,
> but it doesn't seem to be described anywhere in my copy of the PL/SQL
> manual (which is a bit old but newer than plpgsql...)  I dunno where
> Jan got it from.

And I don't remember why it was necessary or seemed like a good idea.


Jan

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