Re: pgsql: Clarify dynamic pl/pgsql item and add URLs. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

David Fetter wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 01:42:10PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> > > momjian@postgresql.org (Bruce Momjian) writes:
> > > >> o Allow function parameters to be passed by name,
> > > >> get_employee_salary(emp_id => 12345, tax_year => 2001)
> > >
> > > The odds of that syntax getting accepted may not be exactly zero,
> > > but they are certainly vanishingly small.  I thought we'd agreed
> > > that a usable syntax would be like get_employee_salary(12345 AS
> > > emp_id, 2001 AS tax_year)
> >
> > TODO updated, but I thought "=>" was the Oracle syntax.
>
> It is.  I understand Tom's concern about not unnecessarily grabbing
> operator symbols, but in this case, I believe it's overblown.

Interesting.  Seems it is something we will have to discuss when we get
closer to a patch.

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