Re: WIP: Allow SQL-language functions to reference parameters by parameter name

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr>
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, Joshua Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Matthew Draper <matthew(at)trebex(dot)net>
Subject: Re: WIP: Allow SQL-language functions to reference parameters by parameter name
Date: 2011-03-27 11:14:38
Message-ID: BA797B50-9BA9-4E4C-9A8E-2A8A4D7C4061@gmail.com
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On Mar 27, 2011, at 6:11 AM, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> That syntax is sufficiently unwieldly that few people will want to use
>> it in real life, but certainly the backward compatibility problem is
>> much less than with what Tom proposed.
>
> Well, we would still support positional arguments like $1 $2 etc, right?

Yeah, that's not going away.

...Robert

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