>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Broersma <rabroersma@yahoo.com> writes:
>> Is it possible for funtions to have named parameters rather than just
>> positional parameters?
Richard> I am not sure that every procedural language is the same, but with plpgsql:
Richard> www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/plpgsql-declarations.html#PLPGSQL-DECLARATION-ALIASES
I meant to reply again to this.
I wound up with a staging table with a before trigger which calls the
function. So, instead of "SELECT foobar()" I "INSERT INTO staging".
The columns of staging are what the arguments to foobar() would have
been, and foobar gets the data from OLD (or $_TD->{new} in plperl¹).
Thanks again. The hint led me to the fountain.
-JimC
¹ cf my post in docs about $_TD->{old}
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