On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Josh Berkus wrote: [snip]
> Of course, this is as true of functions as it will be of procedures. So half > the functionality that I'm angling for to support with calling named params > could be accomplished within the context of overloading just by extending the > named param patch in 8.0 to cover calling functions/SPs in the format above. We cannot use named parameter notation with functions due to overloading. Disregarding the idea of default values, consider: create function foo(i int, j int) ... create function foo(j int, i int) ... If we did: SELECT foo(j => 1, i => 2) we would have two candidate functions. So, AFAICT, we cannot used named parameters with functions. :-( Gavin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])