Re: named parameters in SQL functions

2009/11/15 Andrew Chernow :
>
>>> I like the special marker idea.  A '$' would be nice because its already
>>> in
>>> use for similar purposes, but I think that would lead to ambiguity with
>>> dollar quoting.
>>
>> no, it should be safe (if you don't use for dollar quoting some like
>> $variablename$)
>>
>
> Actually, I was thinking of something like $abc$def, where abc and def are
> variables.  Although, this is much less likely than column name conflicts.
>
> Other possibles are: $(var), @var@, or %var%.  I'd perfer a single character
> marker but that may not fly.
>

single character is my preference too.

Pavel
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