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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: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>, 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: 2011-04-05T20:47:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On tis, 2011-04-05 at 14:45 -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> Talking about the standards compliance of functions is a bit silly:
> our implementation of functions isn't even close to approximating what
> looks to be the standard

That doesn't mean it couldn't be better in the future.  We shouldn't
take it further away, in any case.

As long as we use LANGUAGE SQL, we are both technically and morally in
standards-space.