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

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> So?  We don't support Oracle's brain-dead outer join syntax either.

We had reasonable problems with Oracle's outer-join syntax, while I
don't see the same fundamental issue with => vs AS, and PL/pgSQL is
patterned on Oracle's PL/SQL.

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