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Subject: Re: Reference function arguments by name
From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Erwin Brandstetter <brandstetter@falter.at>, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:15:15 -0400
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On Sat, 2013-05-11 at 12:10 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Erwin Brandstetter <brandstetter@falter.at> writes:
> > The manual says here:
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/sql-createfunction.html
> 
> >> The name of an argument. Some languages (currently only PL/pgSQL)
> >> let you use the name in the function body. For other languages the
> 
> > This has changed in version 9.2. SQL functions can reference the name.
> 
> Ah, this comment got missed when updating the docs for that feature.
> Fixed, thanks for spotting it!

According to https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PL_Matrix, several other
languages support named parameters.  Maybe the parenthetical remark
should be removed altogether.


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