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

From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Shall we just get rid of plpgsql's RENAME?
Date: 2009-11-05 15:55:39
Message-ID: 4AF2F57B.6090609@Yahoo.com
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On 11/5/2009 9:51 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)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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