On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote: > At Tom's suggestion I am looking at allowing use of parameter names in SQL > functions instead of requiring use of $1 etc. That raises the question of > how we would disambiguate a parameter name from a column name. Essentially, > ISTM, we could use some special marker such as @ (c.f. SQL Server) or : > (c.f. ecpg) or else we could have some rule that says which name takes > precedence. I think I prefer a special marker, other things being equal. Is > there a standard on this?
We could also just throw an error if there is any ambiguity. I kind of like the idea of a special marker for both SQL and PL/pgsql, but Tom has been negative on that idea in the past. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
