Re: proposal sql: labeled function params

On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 23:41 -0500, Decibel! wrote:
> On Aug 20, 2008, at 8:26 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote:

> How about we poll -general and see what people say? I'll bet Tom a  
> beer that no one replies saying they've created a => operator (unless  
> maybe PostGIS uses it).

Does Oracle use => for "labeled function params" or just named
arguments ?

> If we're really worried about it we can have a GUC for a few versions  
> that turns off named parameter assignment. But I don't think we  
> should compromise the design on the theory that some folks might be  
> using that as an operator *and* can't change their application to  
> wrap it's use in ().

I still think that better approach is allowing RECORD as input type and
do all the things Pavel proposed with a function that iterates over
record.

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Hannu