Re: Proposal TODO Item: SQL-language reference parameters by name

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 02:31:52PM +0100, Gevik Babakhani wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am working a lot with custom procedures/functions which are
> implemented in "language sql". At the moment function parameter refs
> cannot work with parameter names. I would like to try to implement
> this. The actual TODO item is:
> 
> Allow SQL-language functions to reference parameters by parameter
> name 

I'm thinking we should make named parameters available to all the PLs,
if possible, as re-implementing named parameters for each one seems
like a lot of wasted effort.

How much infrastructure and/or re-jiggering of existing PLs would be
required?

Cheers,
David.
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