Tom Lane wrote:
The more I think about it, the more I think that two sets of function names might not be such an awful idea. next_value(), curr_value(), and set_value() seem like they'd work well enough. Then we'd just say that nextval and friends are deprecated except when you need late binding, and we'd be done.
Personally, I like this more than the overloading idea. cheers andrew ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match