Re: Schema variables - new implementation for Postgres 15

From: Wolfgang Walther <walther(at)technowledgy(dot)de>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Sergey Shinderuk <s(dot)shinderuk(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>, dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com, er(at)xs4all(dot)nl, joel(at)compiler(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Schema variables - new implementation for Postgres 15
Date: 2024-05-31 11:37:35
Message-ID: 93728f61-5510-4c7a-9d3f-502edf303d25@technowledgy.de
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Pavel Stehule:
> 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

I think we can ignore the search_path for this discussion. That's not a
problem of variables vs tables, but just a search path related problem.
It is exactly the same thing right now, when you create a new table x(x)
in a schema which happens to be earlier in your search path.

The objection to the proposed approach for variables was that it would
introduce *new* ambiguities, which Alvaro's suggestion avoids.

Best,

Wolfgang

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