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Re: factorial function/phase out postfix operators?

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: John Naylor <john.naylor@2ndquadrant.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-08-26T17:55:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 11:57 AM Mark Dilger
<mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> I wonder if we can get more comments for or against this patch, at least in principle, in the very near future, to help determine whether the deprecation notices should go into v13?

Speaking of that, has somebody written a specific patch for that?
Like, exactly what are we proposing that this deprecation warning is
going to say?

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Robert Haas
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The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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.