Re: WIP: default values for function parameters - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David E. Wheeler
Subject Re: WIP: default values for function parameters
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Msg-id 4E7A778E-8F2E-4717-8BD3-3A7D63CA8DEB@kineticode.com
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In response to Re: WIP: default values for function parameters  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
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On Dec 12, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Gregory Stark wrote:

> In any case this is all weird. SQL isn't C and doesn't have random  
> bits of
> punctuation involved in syntax. It uses whole words for just about  
> everything.
> Anything you do using punctuation characters is going to look out of  
> place.

Well, what do databases other than Oracle (which uses =>) do? What's  
likely to end up in the standard?

Best,

David


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