Re: pgsql: Clarify dynamic pl/pgsql item and add URLs.

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 01:42:10PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > momjian(at)postgresql(dot)org (Bruce Momjian) writes:
> > >> o Allow function parameters to be passed by name,
> > >> get_employee_salary(emp_id => 12345, tax_year => 2001)
> >
> > The odds of that syntax getting accepted may not be exactly zero,
> > but they are certainly vanishingly small. I thought we'd agreed
> > that a usable syntax would be like get_employee_salary(12345 AS
> > emp_id, 2001 AS tax_year)
>
> TODO updated, but I thought "=>" was the Oracle syntax.

It is. I understand Tom's concern about not unnecessarily grabbing
operator symbols, but in this case, I believe it's overblown.

Cheers,
D
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