[PD] [psql] object hand-holding

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 11, 2007, at 3:59 AM, Jamie Bullock wrote:

>
> On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 18:07 -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>
>> It seems many things use the "?" alone as the unnamed placeholder,  
>> but
>> I only saw MySQL using ?name for named placeholders.  It does seem
>> like a nicer syntax rather than using a different character.   
>> Perhaps,
>> we should follow pgsql and use "$" and "$name", since "$" is  
>> already a
>> marker for replacement vars in Pd.  I suppose that could get  
>> confusing
>> in something like:
>>
>>
>> SELECT id, ABS(($duration - $1)/$2) AS error FROM datatable ORDER BY
>> error LIMIT 1
>>
>
> I vote that we use "?" as a placeholder, and only support unnamed
> placeholders. We can use this to convert to whatever the db-specific
> placeholder system is inside the external.

I am ok with using ?name for placeholders, but I think we should also  
support the plain ? with the list input.  I am fine if that happens  
later tho.  I'd like to get something working soon, we've done a lot  
of talking :).

.hc


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