2011/3/27 Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>:
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> On 03/27/2011 09:42 AM, David Fetter wrote:
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>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 09:12:33PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
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>>> As I've said before, I believe that the root cause of this problem is
>>> that using the same syntax for variables and column names is a bad
>>> idea in the first place. If we used $foo or ?foo or ${foo} or $.foo
>>> or&&foo!!$#? to mean "the parameter called foo", then this would all
>>> be a non-issue.
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>> How about psql's :foo syntax?
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> Surely the time has long gone when we could have made such a choice. And the
> choice was not made in a vacuum.
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Syntax for named parameters should be consistent with prepared
statement. Is there any comments in standard?
Regards
Pavel
SQL/PSM doesn't use any prefix - but it is little bit different
chapter then prepared statements.
> cheers
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> andrew
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