| From: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <gj(at)pointblue(dot)com(dot)pl>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Subject: | Re: WIP: default values for function parameters |
| Date: | 2008-12-12 13:43:02 |
| Message-ID: | 480F5644-3AB3-4BE5-8E1C-3BF3EAB6677B@kineticode.com |
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On Dec 12, 2008, at 2:39 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> So I think that really this is never going to fly unless it uses a
> keyword-looking reserved word. And we're not going to take some short
> word that's not reserved now and suddenly make it so. So, despite
> Pavel's objection that the AS syntax proposal might be confused with
> other uses of AS, I seriously doubt that any proposal is going to get
> accepted that doesn't recycle AS or some other existing reserved word.
I'm okay with AS if that's the way it has to be, but what about a
colon right at the end of the label? A cast is two colons, so no
conflict there:
SELECT foo(1, name: 'bar', quantity: 10);
No doubt I'm missing something…
Best
David
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