Re: stored procedure variable names

On 02/19/2015 04:57 PM, inspector morse wrote:
> In all other DBMS, the variable names have a distinctive character to
> differentiate between variables and column names:
>
> Example:
> SQL Server uses @
> MySql uses ?
> Oracle uses :
> Firebirdsql uses :
>
> It makes it easier to write and manage queries especially in stored
> procedures.
>
> Just compare the below:
> create stored procedure get_user_for_editing(user_id int, out username
> varchar)
> begin
> select username into @username from users where user_id = @user_id;
> end;
>
> to this mess:
>
> create stored procedure get_user_for_editing(user_id int, out username
> varchar)
> begin
> select u.username into get_user_for_editing.username from users u
> where get_user_for_editing.user_id = get_user_for_editing.user_id;
> end;
>

First Postgres does not have stored procedures, but user defined
functions, so the above is a no-op right from the start.

Second I have no idea where you are pulling get_user_for_editing.* from?

Third, which of the Postgres procedural languages are you having an
issue with?

> Prefixing the variables (ex: p_user_id) makes the application code
> harder to write as we have a lot of dynamic code that is expecting
> "user_id" instead of "p_user_id".
>
> Is there any plan to add a character to differentiate between variables?

In what procedural language?

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