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

David Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>

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From: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Matthew Draper <matthew@trebex.net>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-04-08T15:51:43Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Apr 8, 2011, at 8:05 AM, Robert Haas wrote:

>> same mechanism works well in plpgsql and nobody requested a some
>> special shortcut.
> 
> I did.  That mechanism sucks.  But I think we're committed to doing
> what the standard and/or Oracle do, so oh well.

I think I've worked around that in PL/pgSQL using ALIAS…

David