Re: SQL-Invoked Procedures for 8.1

Peter Eisentraut wrote:

>Gavin Sherry wrote:
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>>We cannot use named parameter notation with functions due to
>>overloading. Disregarding the idea of default values, consider:
>>
>>create function foo(i int, j int) ...
>>create function foo(j int, i int) ...
>>    
>>
>
>That just means we cannot use the parameter name as a distinguishing 
>factor in the overloading scheme.  Which certainly makes a lot of sense 
>to me.
>  
>

To me too, It is not at all uncommon to disambiguate on the basis of the 
parameter type profile, and ignore for this purpose the formal names.

cheers

andrew