David Fetter wrote: > On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 09:34:52AM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> David Fetter wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 09:57:39AM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: >>>> The names won’t enable inter-function calling >>> Inter-function calling could be handy, too. >> I agree. This would mean that the function name mangling would have to >> be more predictable ... maybe using the argument types instead of OID? > > As Andrew Dunstan pointed out off-list, the argument type naming > scheme is quite vulnerable to naming oddities: > > foo(int,text,int) > foo_int(text,int) > foo_int_text(int) > foo_int_text_int() Are we looking down the wrong end of the telescope here? What if we had something more like the "C" binding for functions: CREATE FUNCTION foo(int,text,int) AS 'MyModule::internal_foo' LANGUAGE plperl; If you want inter-function calls you use internal_foo. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
