Re: proposal sql: labeled function params

Hello

2008/8/22 Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>:
> On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 23:41 -0500, Decibel! wrote:
>> On Aug 20, 2008, at 8:26 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
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>> How about we poll -general and see what people say? I'll bet Tom a
>> beer that no one replies saying they've created a => operator (unless
>> maybe PostGIS uses it).
>
> Does Oracle use => for "labeled function params" or just named
> arguments ?
>

Oracle use it for named arguments - what I know, similar it doesn't
allow functionality as labeled params publicly - SQL/XML use it.

>> If we're really worried about it we can have a GUC for a few versions
>> that turns off named parameter assignment. But I don't think we
>> should compromise the design on the theory that some folks might be
>> using that as an operator *and* can't change their application to
>> wrap it's use in ().
>
> I still think that better approach is allowing RECORD as input type and
> do all the things Pavel proposed with a function that iterates over
> record.
>

record or hash table - it's implementation - second step. We have to
find syntax and semantic now.

Pavel

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