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Re: hstore ==> and deprecate =>

Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>

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From: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>
To: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us (Tom Lane), robertmhaas@gmail.com (Robert Haas), Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-06-09T18:29:47Z
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>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

 >> While I don't like the inconsistency between ==> or whatever and
 >> the use of => in type input and output, I regard the text
 >> representation as being much harder to change safely, since client
 >> code will be parsing it. In this case the inconsistency seems like
 >> a much smaller problem than changing the text representation.

 Tom> Perhaps it would be sane to make hstore_in accept either => or
 Tom> ==>, but not change hstore_out (for now)?

I'd be happy with that.

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Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)