Re: expression evaluation with expected datatypes

2012/7/10 Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>:
> Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> When I worked on parametrised DO statement, I had to solve following issue:
>
> DO currently is a utility command, not a query. Do you mean to change
> that?
>
> Also, did you think about a lambda construct, which is basically
> allowing functions to be defined inline in a query?
>
> We could imagine several syntax to show up the idea, common keywords
> here include LAMBDA, FLET or LABELS, but I think that expanding WITH
> would be preferable for us.
>
> WITH FUNCTION foo(param list) returns rettype language foo AS (
> definition here
> )
> <query using foo() here>;
>
> Other WITH extensions we can think about include support for DCL as
> asked by David Fetter in the past already, and support for variables too
> (a kind of per-query SET LOCAL).
>
> I don't see how adding parameters and return values to utility commands
> is going to be easier than adding a "lambda" facility.

I don't think so we need true LAMBDA - we don't need support for
recursion and we don't need to modify system tables.

I don't see any advantage and usage of this complex syntax

Regards

Pavel

>
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