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Re: hstore ==> and deprecate =>

David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>

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From: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Michael Glaesemann <grzm@seespotcode.net>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
Date: 2010-06-16T23:37:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Jun 16, 2010, at 4:24 PM, Robert Haas wrote:

>> Put me down for +>.
> 
> Since there are no other votes for that option (or, indeed, any other
> option), I'm going to go with my original instinct and change hstore
> => text[] to hstore & text[].  Patch to do that is attached.

Damn. My other argument is that & looks like boolean or bitwise AND, so the return of an hstore might be unexpected. +> looks more like an arrow (sort of).

But it doesn't much matter, as long as it works.

Best,

David