Re: Initial review of xslt with no limits patch

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Mike Fowler <mike(at)mlfowler(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Initial review of xslt with no limits patch
Date: 2010-08-06 21:25:11
Message-ID: 33BF86D1-F03E-4B48-AD30-8302749E6D6F@kineticode.com
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On Aug 6, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote:

>> SELECT foo('this' ~> 'that', 1 ~> 4);
>>
>> Not bad, I think. I kind of like it. It reminds me how much I hate the % hstore construction operator, though (the new name for =>).
>
> so there is only small step to proposed feature
>
> SELECT foo(this := 'that', "1" := 4)
>
> there is only one difference (but you cannot implement it now)
> * notation for key is same like for sql identifier - why: I would to
> clearly identify key and value. When I use a custom operator - like
> you did, it depends on implementation what is key, what is value. When
> you use a SQL identifier's notation for key, you can't to do a error

Sorry, not following you here…

David

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