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Re: plpgsql: defuault parameters and constant function parameters



Tom Lane wrote:
> It's easier if the defaultable parameters are at the end, but I
> rather wonder how your informix system is disambiguating the calls
> either with a signature like that.  If you leave off just one of the
> two defaultable parameters, how does it know which?

Several other SQL systems allow naming the parameters in calls, such as

CALL foo(a = 1, b = 2)

That's the only way to stay sane with function having 20 or more 
parameters anyway.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/



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