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 See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install PostgreSQL. That file also lists supported operating systems and hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL system. Changes between all PostgreSQL releases are recorded in the file HISTORY. Copyright and license information can be found in the file COPYRIGHT. A comprehensive documentation set is included in this distribution; it can be read as described in the installation instructions. The latest version of this software may be obtained at http://www.postgresql.org/download/. For more information look at our web site located at http://www.postgresql.org/.
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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.
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