* Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > select myfunc(a := 7, b := 6);
Kinda like it myself.
> Question #1: is the SQL committee likely to standardize that out
> from under us, too?
Couldn't say on that one.
> Question #2: will ecpg have a problem with this? Or psql for that
> matter (can you have a psql variable named '=')?
psql doesn't like it, for what it's worth:
postgres=# \set = hi
\set: error
Thanks,
Stephen