| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Matthew Draper <matthew(at)trebex(dot)net>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: WIP: Allow SQL-language functions to reference parameters by parameter name |
| Date: | 2011-04-05 22:36:19 |
| Message-ID: | BANLkTik4JohGR7KqnM-WnfN6AcSV4Efnrg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
> That doesn't mean we should arbitrarily break compatibility with pl/sql, nor
> that we should feel free to add on warts such as $varname that are
> completely at odds with the style of the rest of the language. That doesn't
> do anything except produce a mess.
Well, what it does is avoid breaking compatibility with previous
versions of PostgreSQL. I think that actually does have some value.
Otherwise, we'd be folding to upper-case by default.
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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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