2008/8/24 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "Pavel Stehule" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 2008/8/23 Hannu Krosing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Why not just use some standard record syntax, like > >> do you thing, so is it simpler? > > It's not about being "simpler", it's about pointing out that there are > ways to do what you need without creating compatibility problems and > without commandeering syntax that, if we were going to commandeer it, > would be far better used for named params. > > IMHO, the use-case for labeled parameters is simply much too narrow > to justify giving them special syntax if there is any possible way > to avoid it. We have now seen a couple of ways to do it without > new syntax, at the cost of a few more lines inside the called function > to examine its arguments. But the use-cases you've suggested involve > functions that are complicated enough that that's not going to be any > big deal. > > So I feel that the proposal for labeled parameters as such is dead > in the water, and that the only usefulness this thread has had is > (re-) exploring the syntactic alternatives available for named params.
I feel it too. Regards Pavel Stehule > > regards, tom lane > -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
