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

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, Matthew Draper <matthew@trebex.net>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-03-28T20:18:16Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On lör, 2011-03-26 at 09:41 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> You can't be guaranteed that they won't standardize something
> incompatible no matter what we do.  We could choose to do it as you've
> proposed and they could then standardize some weird syntax - the => is
> a fairly relevant example of exactly that.

The matter of how to resolve SQL parameter names is already
standardized.  See clause on <identifier chain>.