Ryan Bradetich <rbradet...@gmail.com> writes: > This is one of the things I wanted to start looking at for 8.5. > My idea was to optionally use : or @ (not sure which is more popular) to > specify this token is only a variable.
This whole line of thought is really a terrible idea IMHO. plpgsql is supposed to follow Oracle's pl/sql syntax, not invent random syntax of its own. I believe that 80% of the problems here are occurring because we used a crude substitution method that got the priorities backwards from the way Oracle does it. 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