Scott Bailey <arta...@comcast.net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> You can only omit arguments from right to left, so basically what this
>> requires is some foresight while choosing the function's argument order.
> What do you think about allowing 'default' as a parameter the way we do
> when inserting a record?
Seems like a nonstarter because of overloading considerations --- what
are you going to do if there are multiple possible matches?
In any case, the match-arguments-by-name solution available in PG 9.0
seems a whole lot superior to complicating positional match even more.
regards, tom lane
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