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Allow named parameters to be specified using => in addition to :=

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SQL has standardized on => as the use of to specify named parameters,
and we've wanted for many years to support the same syntax ourselves,
but this has been complicated by the possible use of => as an operator
name.  In PostgreSQL 9.0, we began emitting a warning when an operator
named => was defined, and in PostgreSQL 9.2, we stopped shipping a
=>(text, text) operator as part of hstore.  By the time the next major
version of PostgreSQL is released, => will have been deprecated for a
full five years, so hopefully there won't be too many people still
relying on it.  We continue to support := for compatibility with
previous PostgreSQL releases.

Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Petr Jelinek, with a few documentation
tweaks by me.
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Robert Haas
2015-03-10 10:59:11 -04:00
parent 4f3924d9cd
commit 865f14a2d3
10 changed files with 124 additions and 24 deletions
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doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
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@ -2596,10 +2596,10 @@ SELECT concat_lower_or_upper('Hello', 'World');
<para>
In named notation, each argument's name is specified using
<literal>:=</literal> to separate it from the argument expression.
<literal>=></literal> to separate it from the argument expression.
For example:
<screen>
SELECT concat_lower_or_upper(a := 'Hello', b := 'World');
SELECT concat_lower_or_upper(a => 'Hello', b => 'World');
concat_lower_or_upper
-----------------------
hello world
@ -2610,13 +2610,24 @@ SELECT concat_lower_or_upper(a := 'Hello', b := 'World');
using named notation is that the arguments may be specified in any
order, for example:
<screen>
SELECT concat_lower_or_upper(a := 'Hello', b := 'World', uppercase := true);
SELECT concat_lower_or_upper(a => 'Hello', b => 'World', uppercase => true);
concat_lower_or_upper
-----------------------
HELLO WORLD
(1 row)
SELECT concat_lower_or_upper(a := 'Hello', uppercase := true, b := 'World');
SELECT concat_lower_or_upper(a => 'Hello', uppercase => true, b => 'World');
concat_lower_or_upper
-----------------------
HELLO WORLD
(1 row)
</screen>
</para>
<para>
An older syntax based on ":=" is supported for backward compatibility:
<screen>
SELECT concat_lower_or_upper(a := 'Hello', uppercase := true, b := 'World');
concat_lower_or_upper
-----------------------
HELLO WORLD
@ -2638,7 +2649,7 @@ SELECT concat_lower_or_upper(a := 'Hello', uppercase := true, b := 'World');
already mentioned, named arguments cannot precede positional arguments.
For example:
<screen>
SELECT concat_lower_or_upper('Hello', 'World', uppercase := true);
SELECT concat_lower_or_upper('Hello', 'World', uppercase => true);
concat_lower_or_upper
-----------------------
HELLO WORLD