Having recently witnessed quite an ingenious hack to implement some good old “println” style development debugging from stored procedures into a file, it prompted me to post knowledge to the Interwebs on two other ways how such a goal can be implemented more transparently. Also, with help of some other good old legacy technology in […]

Pavel Stehule recently wrote the post “Don’t use SQL keywords as PLpgSQL variable names” describing the situation when internal stored routine variable names match PostgreSQL keywords. But the problem is not only in keywords but also for plpgsql variable names. Consider: Output: OK, at least we have no hidden error like in Pavel’s case. Let’s […]