so 10. 10. 2020 v 18:14 odesílatel Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> napsal:

> Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > A sub-patch extracted from the bigger patch in thread "SQL-standard
> > function body"[0]: Make LANGUAGE SQL the default in CREATE FUNCTION and
> > CREATE PROCEDURE, per SQL standard.
>
> I'm suspicious of doing this, mainly because DO does not have that
> default.  I think sticking with no-default is less likely to cause
> confusion.  Moreover, I don't really believe that having a default value
> here is going to add any noticeable ease-of-use for anyone.  What's much
> more likely to happen is that we'll start getting novice questions about
> whatever weird syntax errors you get when trying to feed plpgsql code to
> the sql-language function parser.  (I don't know what they are exactly,
> but I'll bet a very fine dinner that they're less understandable to a
> novice than "no language specified".)
>
> I don't see any reason why we can't figure out that an unquoted function
> body is SQL, while continuing to make no assumptions about a body written
> as a string.  The argument that defaulting to SQL makes the latter case
> SQL-compliant seems pretty silly anyway.
>

+1

Pavel


> I also continue to suspect that we are going to need to treat quoted
> and unquoted SQL as two different languages, possibly with not even
> the same semantics.  If that's how things shake out, claiming that the
> quoted-SQL version is the default because spec becomes even sillier.
>
>                         regards, tom lane
>
>
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