2010/5/28 Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us>: > Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> writes: >>> Peter Eisentraut<pete...@gmx.net> writes: >>>> How about >>>> select myfunc(a := 7, b := 6); > >> If we go with that, should we make some preparations to allow => in the >> future? Like provide an alternative operator name for hstore's =>, and >> add a note somewhere in the docs to discourage other modules from using =>. > > I'd vote no. We're intentionally choosing to deviate from a very poor > choice of notation. Maybe Peter can interest the committee in allowing > := as an alternate notation, instead.
-1 I prefer a standard. And again - it isn't poor syntax - ADA, Perl use it, It can be a funny if ANSI SQL committee change some design from Oracle's proposal to PostgreSQL's proposal. Regards Pavel > > 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 > -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
