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

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>, Joshua Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Matthew Draper <matthew@trebex.net>
Date: 2011-03-27T11:14:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Mar 27, 2011, at 6:11 AM, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> That syntax is sufficiently unwieldly that few people will want to use
>> it in real life, but certainly the backward compatibility problem is
>> much less than with what Tom proposed.
> 
> Well, we would still support positional arguments like $1 $2 etc, right?

Yeah, that's not going away.

...Robert