Horton

Re: factorial function/phase out postfix operators?

David Fetter <david@fetter.org>

View thread View on postgr.es
From: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-05-19T02:11:37Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 10:03:13PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > What are the thoughts about then marking the postfix operator deprecated 
> > and eventually removing it?
> 
> If we do this it'd require a plan.  We'd have to also warn about the
> feature deprecation in (at least) the CREATE OPERATOR man page, and
> we'd have to decide how many release cycles the deprecation notices
> need to stand for.
> 
> If that's the intention, though, it'd be good to get those deprecation
> notices published in v13 not v14.

+1 for deprecating in v13.

Best,
David.
-- 
David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> http://fetter.org/
Phone: +1 415 235 3778

Remember to vote!
Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate

Commits

  1. Remove precedence hacks no longer needed without postfix operators.

  2. Allow most keywords to be used as column labels without requiring AS.

  3. Remove support for postfix (right-unary) operators.

  4. Remove factorial operators, leaving only the factorial() function.

  5. Further refine patch for commenting operator implementation functions.