| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Cc: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Subject: | Re: proposal sql: labeled function params |
| Date: | 2008-08-18 07:51:03 |
| Message-ID: | 200808181051.04541.peter_e@gmx.net |
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Am Saturday, 16. August 2008 schrieb Hannu Krosing:
> A "label" is the same thing as "variable"/"attribute"/"argument name" in
> all programming languages I can think of. Why do you need two kinds of
> argument names in postgreSQL ?
>
> maybe you are after something like keyword arguments in python ?
>
> http://docs.python.org/tut/node6.html#SECTION006720000000000000000
>
> keyword arguments are a way of saying that you don't know all variable
> names (or "labels" if you prefer) at function defining time and are
> going to pass them in when calling.
I think we are beginning to talk about the same thing. (Meaning you and me --
not sure about the rest. :) )
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