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Tom Lane 0772f1e53d Change plpgsql from using textual substitution to insert variable references
into SQL expressions, to using the newly added parser callback hooks.

This allows us to do the substitutions in a more semantically-aware way:
a variable reference will only be recognized where it can validly go,
ie, a place where a column value or parameter would be legal, instead of
the former behavior that would replace any textual match including
table names and column aliases (leading to syntax errors later on).
A release-note-worthy fine point is that plpgsql variable names that match
fully-reserved words will now need to be quoted.

This commit preserves the former behavior that variable references take
precedence over any possible match to a column name.  The infrastructure
is in place to support the reverse precedence or throwing an error on
ambiguity, but those behaviors aren't accessible yet.

Most of the code changes here are associated with making the namespace
data structure persist so that it can be consulted at runtime, instead
of throwing it away at the end of initial function parsing.

The plpgsql scanner is still doing name lookups, but that behavior is
now irrelevant for SQL expressions.  A future commit will deal with
removing unnecessary lookups.
2009-11-06 18:37:55 +00:00
config In the configure check for the Python distutils module, use a less obscure 2009-10-14 21:59:15 +00:00
contrib Disable triggering failover with a signal in pg_standby on Windows, because 2009-11-04 12:51:30 +00:00
doc Don't treat NEW and OLD as reserved words anymore. For the purposes of rules 2009-11-05 23:24:27 +00:00
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COPYRIGHT Update copyright for 2009. 2009-01-01 17:24:05 +00:00
GNUmakefile.in Build bzip2 tarball in dist target as well 2009-11-03 21:28:10 +00:00
Makefile Remove remains of old depend target. 2007-01-20 17:16:17 +00:00
README Point to our download URL, rather than listing interface in the README 2008-05-06 22:02:12 +00:00
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PostgreSQL Database Management System
=====================================
  
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL
database management system.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.  This distribution also contains C language bindings.

PostgreSQL has many language interfaces, many of which are listed here:

	http://www.postgresql.org/download

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