Kind people, I've brought this up before, and with Dennis Bjőrklund's help, would like to bring it up again. Here's the idea:
I'd like to be able to create functions with named parameters that could be called with the names in any order. For example, CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION foo_func(name TEXT, val INTEGER) AS ... SELECT foo_func(val AS 23, name AS 'Name goes here'); and have it Do The Right Thing. Dennis has pointed out that mixing the call-with-named-parameter interface with call-by-order-of-parameters one would cause confusion, and I think it would be OK to disallow this type mixing, so SELECT foo_func(name AS 'yet another name', 35); would be disallowed. A calling convention that names parameters makes it a lot easier to track just exactly what parameter is set to which value, and lets people not have to memorize what order those named parameters appear in. On a related note, it would also be nice to have default parameters and some way to say to use them. Well, that's my thoughts so far. What are yours? Cheers, D -- David Fetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 510 893 6100 mobile: +1 415 235 3778 Remember to vote! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
