Re: functional call named notation clashes with SQL feature

* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > select myfunc(a := 7, b := 6);

Kinda like it myself.

> Question #1: is the SQL committee likely to standardize that out
> from under us, too?

Couldn't say on that one.

> Question #2: will ecpg have a problem with this?  Or psql for that
> matter (can you have a psql variable named '=')?

psql doesn't like it, for what it's worth:

postgres=# \set = hi
\set: error
Thanks,
    Stephen