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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: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, "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: 2011-04-05T22:36:19Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> That doesn't mean we should arbitrarily break compatibility with pl/sql, nor
> that we should feel free to add on warts such as $varname that are
> completely at odds with the style of the rest of the language. That doesn't
> do anything except produce a mess.

Well, what it does is avoid breaking compatibility with previous
versions of PostgreSQL.  I think that actually does have some value.
Otherwise, we'd be folding to upper-case by default.

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Robert Haas
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