Re: proposal sql: labeled function params

Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 08:21 +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>> record or hash table - it's implementation - second step. We have to
>> find syntax and semantic now.

> Why not just use some standard record syntax, like
> SELECT(value::type name, ...)

Yeah, that's one way. It also strikes me that hstore itself provides a
usable solution to this problem, though only for simple-string values.
That is, you could do something like

create function myfunc(hstore) returns ...

select myfunc('tag1' => '42' || 'tag2' => 'foobar' || ...);

Or, with the new variadic function support,

create function myfunc(variadic hstore[]) returns ...

select myfunc('tag1' => '42', 'tag2' => 'foobar', ...);

which is just a couple of quote marks away from the syntax Pavel
wants.

regards, tom lane