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Re: hstore ==> and deprecate =>

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>
Cc: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>, robertmhaas@gmail.com (Robert Haas), Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-06-09T17:04:54Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
"David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes:
> I actually like :> pretty well. It looks more like =>, and has nice correspondence to := for named function params.

Colon was removed from the set of allowed operator-name characters years
ago.  There are conflicts with various usages (ecpg & psql variables).
This is actually a place where the current := behavior could cause some
issues, though I'm not aware of any at the moment.

			regards, tom lane