> Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> writes:

> Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> writes:
>
>>::sigh:: Is it me or does it look like all
>>of pl/pgsql is schema un-aware (ie, all of the declarations).  -sc
>
>
> Yeah.  The group of routines parse_word, parse_dblword, etc that are
> called by the lexer certainly all need work.  There are some
> definitional issues to think about, too --- plpgsql presently relies on
> the number of names to give it some idea of what to look for, and those
> rules are probably all toast now.  Please come up with a sketch of what
> you think the behavior should be before you start hacking code.

Attached is a diff -c format proposal to fix this. I've also attached a short
test script. Seems to work OK and passes all regression tests.

Here's a breakdown of how I understand plpgsql's "Special word rules" -- I
think it illustrates the behavior reasonably well. New functions added by this
patch are plpgsql_parse_tripwordtype and plpgsql_parse_dblwordrowtype:

Joe Conway