Re: functional call named notation clashes with SQL feature

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: functional call named notation clashes with SQL feature
Date: 2010-05-31 14:16:26
Message-ID: 201005311416.o4VEGQh11594@momjian.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> So as far as I can tell, no one is opposed to replacing "expr AS name"
> with "name := expr" in the named-parameter syntax. Obviously we had
> better get this done before beta2. Is anyone actually working on the
> code/docs changes? If not, I'll pick it up.

If we eventually are going to want to support the ANSI standard "=>"
syntax, I am thinking we should just do it now. The larger question is
what justification do we have of not supporting "=>".

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