| From: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Matthew Draper <matthew(at)trebex(dot)net>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: WIP: Allow SQL-language functions to reference parameters by parameter name |
| Date: | 2011-03-26 06:06:21 |
| Message-ID: | BDF350C1-A57D-436A-80F2-A876E47F971A@kineticode.com |
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On Mar 25, 2011, at 11:23 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> If this were PL/perl, or PL/almost-anything-except-SQL, I could get
> behind such a proposal. But it's not, it's SQL; and SQL doesn't do
> things that way. SQL's idea of disambiguation is qualified names.
>
> And even more to the point: to the extent you think that weird syntax
> might be a suitable solution, you have to keep in mind that the SQL
> committee could take over any such syntax at the drop of a hat.
> See the recent unpleasantness concerning => ...
Perhaps we could use `=>varname`. ;-P
David
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