| From: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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| To: | "David Fetter" <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
| Cc: | "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Gevik Babakhani" <pgdev(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: V0.2 patch for TODO Item: SQL-language referenceparameters by name. |
| Date: | 2007-11-03 17:21:52 |
| Message-ID: | 87ejf7s0r3.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com |
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"David Fetter" <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> What I mean by "kinda" is that it's a standard way of handling
> parameters in Oracle and in DBI.
That's a good reason *not* to use them for other purposes. Users trying to
create procedures through DBI or other interfaces like it will run into
problems when the driver misinterprets the parameters.
> I think it would be a very bad idea
> to require that people use the function name in parameters,
I think were talking about only allowing it to disambiguate if the name is
shadowed by a variable in an inner scope.
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