On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 12:44:07PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I think a prefix of ':' would be good, as it's already a standard, > > kinda. Anybody who names a database object :foo deserves whatever > > happens to them :P > > The important word there is "kinda". We do not need a prefix and > I'll resist introducing one.
What I mean by "kinda" is that it's a standard way of handling parameters in Oracle and in DBI. I think it would be a very bad idea to require that people use the function name in parameters, as such names can be quite long. People using names like :foo for database objects could just quote them :) Another possibility would be to introduce another parameter type in addition to IN, OUT and INOUT called PREFIX (required to be of type text) which would enable people to change from the default prefix. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
