3) Any way to define CONSTANTs ? We already talked a bit about this subject and also Gilles Darold introduces it in this mailing-list topic but I'd like to insist on it. I think it would be nice to have a way to say that a variable should not be changed once defined. Maybe it's hard to implement and can be implemented later, but I just want to know if this concern is open.
I played little bit with it and I didn't find any nice solution, but maybe I found the solution. I had ideas about some variants, but almost all time I had a problem with parser's shifts because all potential keywords are not reserved.
last variant, but maybe best is using keyword WITH
So the syntax can looks like
CREATE [ TEMP ] VARIABLE varname [ AS ] type [ NOT NULL ] [ DEFAULT expression ] [ WITH [ OPTIONS ] '(' ... ')' ] ]
What do you think about this syntax? It doesn't need any new keyword, and it easy to enhance it.
CREATE VARIABLE foo AS int DEFAULT 10 WITH OPTIONS ( CONSTANT);