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Re: proposal - plpgsql - support standard syntax for named arguments for cursors

Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com> — 2025-02-08T08:34:35Z

Hi,

On Sat, Feb 08, 2025 at 07:47:23AM +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> Hi
>
> when I worked on strict expr check patch I found so syntax for named
> arguments of cursors supports only our legacy  proprietary syntax `argname
> := value`
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/plpgsql-cursors.html
>
> I propose to enhancing to ANSI/SQL standard syntax for named arguments
> `argname => value`

Seems sensible to me.

> The patch is almost trivial

Documentation and tests are updated, and the patch LGTM.