2008/12/9 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "Pavel Stehule" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> PL/pgSQL < PL/SQL < ADA so using '=>' is only consistent and natural. >> And it is my goal. > > [ shrug... ] Don't be too surprised when the patch gets rejected. > Oracle compatibility is nice when we can get it, but we aren't going > to break existing behavior for it. >
I believe to GUC should be a solution - I am don't understand your argument (wrong historic implementation isn't strong argument*), so .. I am not hurry, and maybe somebody will come with less controversal solution or beter solution, maybe not. Actually - variadic functions and defaults are significant step to forward and will carry comfort to application and library programmers. And I thing so named params or argument's metadata is logical next step. I should to believe so implementation will be in conformance with current standard and with ideas of standard. I invite any ideas, and I will diskus about it with respect to ADA (as origin lot of SQL construct) and, ofcourse, standard. Really - my goal isn't Oracle compatibility (it's only one efect, because Oracle use well syntax). I am primary working on libraries and external modules - and my work (variadic fce, defaults) started on JSON support. Is nice on PostgreSQL, so every feature should be customised - own objects, operators, agregates - so I would to write similar functions (with same user comfort) to SQL/XML function (without parser's patching) - it isn't possible now. best regards Pavel Stehule p.s. you can see on cvs - there are some people that develops or use orafce much more hard then me * a) this feature should be disabled in default b) should be conditional compiled c) with two, three hooks and some small changes should be implemented as external (contrib) module ~ the most worst variant > 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
