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Re: factorial function/phase out postfix operators?

John Naylor <john.naylor@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: John Naylor <john.naylor@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>, Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-08-28T08:43:58Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 5:04 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I'm a bit inclined to kill them both off and standardize on factorial()
> (not numeric_fac).

+1

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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.