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

David Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>

From: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>

To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, Matthew Draper <matthew@trebex.net>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2011-03-26T06:06:21Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Mar 25, 2011, at 11:23 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> If this were PL/perl, or PL/almost-anything-except-SQL, I could get
> behind such a proposal.  But it's not, it's SQL; and SQL doesn't do
> things that way.  SQL's idea of disambiguation is qualified names.
> 
> And even more to the point: to the extent you think that weird syntax
> might be a suitable solution, you have to keep in mind that the SQL
> committee could take over any such syntax at the drop of a hat.
> See the recent unpleasantness concerning => ...

Perhaps we could use `=>varname`. ;-P

David