Re: Reference function arguments by name

On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 23:15 -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-05-11 at 12:10 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Erwin Brandstetter <brandstetter(at)falter(dot)at> writes:
> > > The manual says here:
> > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/sql-createfunction.html
> >
> > >> The name of an argument. Some languages (currently only PL/pgSQL)
> > >> let you use the name in the function body. For other languages the
> >
> > > This has changed in version 9.2. SQL functions can reference the name.
> >
> > Ah, this comment got missed when updating the docs for that feature.
> > Fixed, thanks for spotting it!
>
> According to https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PL_Matrix, several other
> languages support named parameters. Maybe the parenthetical remark
> should be removed altogether.

Fixed, and also updated the equally wrong claim in 8.4...9.1 that only
PL/pgSQL supports this.