2009/5/21 Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>:
> 2009/5/21 Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>:
>>
>>> The patch adds the "AS" keyword to the plpgsql grammar and doesn't
>>> assign an expression parameter to the sql construct if the scalar
>>> follows the AS keyword.
>>
>> Would it be possible to also support "=" as well as "as"? I believe that
>> SQL Server uses "=" exclusively, and supporting that syntax would help
>> people port TSQL-based applications.
>>
>
> No, it not possible, or not simply . This is ambiguous. a = 10 should
> be normal boolean expression. I didn't use T-SQL many years, but I
> thing, so in T-SQL this problem is solved with variables prefixes @.
there are not technical problem - there are semantic problem
Pavel
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