On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Josh Berkus wrote:
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> Of course, this is as true of functions as it will be of procedures. So half
> the functionality that I'm angling for to support with calling named params
> could be accomplished within the context of overloading just by extending the
> named param patch in 8.0 to cover calling functions/SPs in the format above.
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) ...
If we did:
SELECT foo(j => 1, i => 2)
we would have two candidate functions. So, AFAICT, we cannot used named
parameters with functions. :-(
Gavin