"Pavel Stehule" <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
> 2008/12/10 Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>:
>> Well, that is interesting, but in SQL we already use 'AS' in most places
>> where we want to assign a label to a value, so it seems AS is more
>> logical for SQL at this point.
> Question is - what is label - is it parameter name or some other value?
> Every output in SQL has default label - column name, or some default.
> And we use "AS" for change this default label. So using AS for param
> names is bad idea.
That argument is complete nonsense. A function parameter can't possibly
be an "output" of a SQL statement, so there is no conflict.
regards, tom lane