From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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To: | Gevik Babakhani <pgdev(at)xs4all(dot)nl> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Proposal TODO Item: SQL-language reference parameters by name |
Date: | 2007-10-30 16:35:33 |
Message-ID: | 20071030163533.GA5033@fetter.org |
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On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 02:31:52PM +0100, Gevik Babakhani wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am working a lot with custom procedures/functions which are
> implemented in "language sql". At the moment function parameter refs
> cannot work with parameter names. I would like to try to implement
> this. The actual TODO item is:
>
> Allow SQL-language functions to reference parameters by parameter
> name
I'm thinking we should make named parameters available to all the PLs,
if possible, as re-implementing named parameters for each one seems
like a lot of wasted effort.
How much infrastructure and/or re-jiggering of existing PLs would be
required?
Cheers,
David.
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