Re: deprecating =>, take two

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of lun jun 21 12:20:59 -0400 2010:
>
>> 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.
>
> Maybe this is just a matter of semantics, but I thought we were going to
> deprecate => in 9.0 so that people started to avoid its use altogether.
> Why wait till 9.1 to recommend avoidance?
>
> I had imagined that 9.1 was going to ban => altogether.

Sorry, bad phrasing on my part.  Your understanding matches mine.

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