On Mar 25, 2011, at 11:23 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > If this were PL/perl, or PL/almost-anything-except-SQL, I could get > behind such a proposal. But it's not, it's SQL; and SQL doesn't do > things that way. SQL's idea of disambiguation is qualified names. > > And even more to the point: to the extent you think that weird syntax > might be a suitable solution, you have to keep in mind that the SQL > committee could take over any such syntax at the drop of a hat. > See the recent unpleasantness concerning => ...
Perhaps we could use `=>varname`. ;-P David -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
