Re: [PATCHES] prepareable statements

Neil Conway writes:

> Regarding the syntax for EXECUTE, it occurs to me that it could be made
> to be more similar to the PREPARE syntax -- i.e.
>
> PREPARE foo(text, int) AS ...;
>
> EXECUTE foo('a', 1);
>
> (rather than EXECUTE USING -- the effect being that prepared statements
> now look more like function calls on a syntactical level, which I think
> is okay.)

I'm not sure I like that. It seems too confusing. Why not keep it as the
standard says? (After all, it is the PREPARE part that we're adjusting,
not EXECUTE.)

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net