Re: deprecating =>, take two

On Jun 21, 2010, at 9:20 AM, Robert Haas wrote:

> Per that email, and subsequent concurrence, here is a series of
> patches which does the following:
> 
> 1. In CVS HEAD, document the hstore(text, text) function and adjust
> CREATE OPERATOR to throw a warning when => is used as an operator
> name, using the wording previously suggested by Tom.
> 2. In the back branches, add an hstore(text, text) function.  These
> branches already have a tconvert(text, text) function which does the
> same thing, but the consensus seemed to be that we do not want to go
> back to the name tconvert() for this functionality, and that
> back-patching the new name was preferable.
> 3. In 8.4 and 8.3, also add hstore(text, text) to the documentation.
> 8.2 appears to have no contrib documentation.

+1

I was just about to email asking where this was. Glad I checked for new mail first. :-)

> Barring vigorous objections, I will apply these tomorrow so that we
> can consider deprecating => as an operator name in 9.1, for better
> compliance with the SQL standard.

So will the CREATE OPERATOR code be updated to issue the warning, rather than just for the case of hstore's => operator?

Best,

David