Re: proposal sql: labeled function params - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Stark
Subject Re: proposal sql: labeled function params
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Msg-id 3819879A-7495-4E6D-9552-58222371430D@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Re: proposal sql: labeled function params  ("Pavel Stehule" <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
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<br /><p><font size="2">>><br /> >> At any point in this discussion has anyone explained why these <br />
>>labels would<br /> >> actually be a good idea?<br /> >><br /> ><br /> > it's allows smart
librarieslike SQL/XML<br /><br /> You could always just pass the label as an additional parameter. Which <br /> is all
thiswould be syntactic sugar for anyways. So it doesn't <br /> "allow" such libraries it just let users type
foo(bar=>'baz')instead <br /> of foo('bar','baz'). Not much gain for all this pain.<br /></font> 

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