Re: Function call - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dennis Bjorklund
Subject Re: Function call
Date
Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0401281810000.30205-100000@zigo.dhs.org
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In response to Re: Function call  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Tom Lane wrote:

> when the programmer simply adds names to the parameter declarations
> of a function without changing any call sites.  If the presence of
> parameter names changes the ambiguity resolution rules at all, I'm
> doubtful that we could guarantee not to break things.

Agreed. Calls without argument names shall work exactly as today.

If you are saying that a call like foo(x => 14, y => 'text') shall always
call the same function even if you add parameter names to a function who
did not have it before. Then that is wrong.

-- 
/Dennis Björklund



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