On Jun 5, 2010, at 7:02 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > From a usability point of view, if we adopt the spec's syntax we have to > stop allowing => for any other purpose. Period.
What if we added a new "dual" type and limited the => operator only to that type, being, essentially, a constructor. Then hstore and function call param processing could be rewritten to transform those types into key/value pairs. So you'd call functions with: foo( bar => 1, baz => 'this'); Actually, now that I think about it, the hstore => basically does this: it constructs an hstore from its two values. So why not basically move hstore into core and just use it for function arguments? Crazy idea, I know, but thought I'd just throw it out there. Best, David -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
