Re: Schema variables - new implementation for Postgres 15

Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
To: Wolfgang Walther <walther@technowledgy.de>
Cc: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, Sergey Shinderuk <s.shinderuk@postgrespro.ru>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>, dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com, er@xs4all.nl, joel@compiler.org, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2024-05-31T11:14:19Z
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  1. Allow underscores in integer and numeric constants.

  2. Remove special outfuncs/readfuncs handling of RangeVar.catalogname.

  3. Remove extra space from dumped ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES.

  4. Create FKs properly when attaching table as partition

  5. psql: improve tab-complete's handling of variant SQL names.

pá 31. 5. 2024 v 13:10 odesílatel Wolfgang Walther <walther@technowledgy.de>
napsal:

> Pavel Stehule:
> > 2. But my main argument is, it is not really safe - it solves Peter's
> > use case, but if I use a reverse example of Peter's case, I still have a
> > problem.
> >
> > I can have a variable x, and then I can write query like `SELECT x FROM
> x`;
> >
> > but if somebody creates table x(x int), then the query `SELECT x FROM x`
> > will be correct, but it is surely something else. So the requirement of
> > the usage variable inside FROM clause doesn't help. It doesn't work.
>
> But in this case you could make variables and tables share the same
> namespace, i.e. forbid creating a variable with the same name as an
> already existing table.
>

It helps, but not on 100% - there is a search path



>
> Best,
>
> Wolfgang
>