Re: defaults in a function

On Jun 6, 2012, at 11:08, John Fabiani <johnf@jfcomputer.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> In python when I create a method/function is set a default value for a passed value if one is not provided.
>
> def foo(self, event = None):
>
> In the above function if the second value is not passed a value of None is used as the default.
>
> Is this possible with plpgsql???
>
> Johnf
>

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/sql-createfunction.html

... param_n type DEFAULT value
OR
... param_n type = value

It is SQL DDL syntax and not specific to the language the function is written in.

David J.