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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: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:35:48 -0400
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On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 23:15 -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 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.

Fixed, and also updated the equally wrong claim in 8.4...9.1 that only
PL/pgSQL supports this.


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