Re: default parameters

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: default parameters
Date: 2010-02-17 20:04:50
Message-ID: 15403.1266437090@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> According to http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/plpgsql-porting.html
> there are no default parameters in PostgreSQL, but according to
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/sql-createfunction.html
> there are.

> It looks like this was fixed in CVS HEAD at some point (maybe when the
> changes regarding the scoping of column names vs. parameters were put
> in) but I think we should back-patch the part that also applies to 8.4
> so that the docs are internally consistent.

Yeah, go for it. I think I took those statements out in HEAD but forgot
about back-patching the correction.

regards, tom lane

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