Re: Can the string literal syntax for function definitions please be dropped ?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Timothy Madden <terminatorul(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Adrian Klaver <aklaver(at)comcast(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Can the string literal syntax for function definitions please be dropped ?
Date: 2009-10-25 22:42:09
Message-ID: 20091025224209.GB5516@alvh.no-ip.org
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Timothy Madden escribió:

> Anyway Posgres offers a CREATE FUNCTION statement that resembles or should
> resemble that in the standard, and that is what I am talking about.

"Should" being the operative word in that sentence. If you want to
submit a patch to move us closer towards the SQL/PSM goal, I'm sure it
will be welcome.

> I just want the Postgres version of the statement to look more like
> the standard one.

Sure. If we weren't all pointing in that general direction, we would
probably have CONNECT BY instead of WITH RECURSIVE.

> Would you detail the differences you talk about that you see here ?

I'm not that familiar with SQL/PSM, sorry. Pavel Stehule is da man.

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