Re: proposal: schema variables

Hi

> 3) Any way to define CONSTANTs ?
> We already talked a bit about this subject and also Gilles Darold
> introduces it in this mailing-list topic but I'd like to insist on it.
> I think it would be nice to have a way to say that a variable should not
> be changed once defined.
> Maybe it's hard to implement and can be implemented later, but I just want
> to know if this concern is open.
>

I played little bit with it and I didn't find any nice solution, but maybe
I found the solution. I had ideas about some variants, but almost all time
I had a problem with parser's shifts because all potential keywords are not
reserved.

last variant, but maybe best is using keyword WITH

So the syntax can looks like

CREATE [ TEMP ] VARIABLE varname [ AS ] type [ NOT NULL ] [ DEFAULT
expression ] [ WITH [ OPTIONS ] '(' ... ')' ] ]

What do you think about this syntax? It doesn't need any new keyword, and
it easy to enhance it.

CREATE VARIABLE foo AS int DEFAULT 10 WITH OPTIONS ( CONSTANT);

?

Regards

Pavel