Re: factorial function/phase out postfix operators?

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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

Cc: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>, John Naylor <john.naylor@2ndquadrant.com>, Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2020-09-19T00:18:16Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 4:48 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Pushed with the discussed terminological changes and some other
> fooling about, including fixing the documentation.

Awesome. Thanks!

-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

Commits

Remove precedence hacks no longer needed without postfix operators.
- 28a61fc6c58f 14.0 landed
Allow most keywords to be used as column labels without requiring AS.
- 06a7c3154f5b 14.0 landed
Remove support for postfix (right-unary) operators.
- 1ed6b895634c 14.0 landed
Remove factorial operators, leaving only the factorial() function.
- 76f412ab3105 14.0 landed
Further refine patch for commenting operator implementation functions.
- 908ab8028640 9.1.0 cited