Dimitri Fontaine wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > Le 13 d?c. 08 ? 11:39, Peter Eisentraut a ?crit : > > On Friday 12 December 2008 20:05:57 Tom Lane wrote: > >> Excellent. I checked that psql's colon-variable feature behaves the > >> same. So it looks like the proposed "name: value" syntax would > >> indeed > >> not break any existing features. Barring better ideas I think we > >> should > >> go with that one. > > > > I personally thought that AS was a better idea. > > It seems some people want to be able to overload some default > parameters (but not others) and at the same time alias them to some > new label. I'm not sure I understand it all, but it seems an example > of it would be like: > SELECT xml_function(a, b: 'foo' AS bar); > > If this is what some people want when all the spare parts are bound > together, we don't have the option to use AS for both the meanings.
I agree "AS" is better. And why would the "AS" above be inside the parentheses; I assume it would be: SELECT xml_function(a, b: 'foo') AS bar; Giving labels to parameters passed into functions makes no sense. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers