Re: SQL-Invoked Procedures for 8.1

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: SQL-Invoked Procedures for 8.1
Date: 2004-10-07 14:51:51
Message-ID: 200410071651.51863.peter_e@gmx.net
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Gavin Sherry wrote:
> We cannot use named parameter notation with functions due to
> overloading. Disregarding the idea of default values, consider:
>
> create function foo(i int, j int) ...
> create function foo(j int, i int) ...

That just means we cannot use the parameter name as a distinguishing
factor in the overloading scheme. Which certainly makes a lot of sense
to me.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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