On Dec 13, 2008, at 5:05 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> However, after looking at the precedent of XMLELEMENT, it's hard to
> deny
> that if the SQL committee ever chose to standardize named parameters,
> AS is what they would use. The chances that ":" would become the
> standard are negligible --- that's not the sort of syntax they like
> to standardize.
Any chance that both "AS" and ":" could be supported, so that it's at
the discretion of the user?
Best,
David