Hello 2008/8/22 Hannu Krosing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 23:41 -0500, Decibel! wrote: >> On Aug 20, 2008, at 8:26 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote: > >> How about we poll -general and see what people say? I'll bet Tom a >> beer that no one replies saying they've created a => operator (unless >> maybe PostGIS uses it). > > Does Oracle use => for "labeled function params" or just named > arguments ? >
Oracle use it for named arguments - what I know, similar it doesn't allow functionality as labeled params publicly - SQL/XML use it. >> If we're really worried about it we can have a GUC for a few versions >> that turns off named parameter assignment. But I don't think we >> should compromise the design on the theory that some folks might be >> using that as an operator *and* can't change their application to >> wrap it's use in (). > > I still think that better approach is allowing RECORD as input type and > do all the things Pavel proposed with a function that iterates over > record. > record or hash table - it's implementation - second step. We have to find syntax and semantic now. Pavel > -------------- > Hannu > > > -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers