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Re: Deprecating postfix and factorial operators in PostgreSQL 13

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, John Naylor <john.naylor@2ndquadrant.com>, Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Date: 2020-08-27T16:16:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> The deprecation warnings included in this patch warn that postfix operator support, along with both postfix ! and prefix !! factorial operators, will be removed in PostgreSQL 14.

The operator docs should say "use factorial() instead", or words to
that effect.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Mark factorial operator, and postfix operators in general, as deprecated.