Tom Lane already removed this from HEAD as par of the plpgsql variable
resolution behavior patch, but this part of his patch also applies to 8.4.
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<chapter id="plpgsql">
<title><application>PL/pgSQL</application> - <acronym>SQL</acronym> Procedural Language</title>
<application>PL/pgSQL</application> are:
<itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- There are no default values for parameters in <productname>PostgreSQL</>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- You can overload function names in <productname>PostgreSQL</>. This is
- often used to work around the lack of default parameters.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
<listitem>
<para>
If a name used in a SQL command could be either a column name of a