Re: hstore ==> and deprecate =>
Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
To: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-06-09T19:22:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 1:15 PM, David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com> wrote: > On Jun 9, 2010, at 10:04 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > >>> I actually like :> pretty well. It looks more like =>, and has nice correspondence to := for named function params. >> >> Colon was removed from the set of allowed operator-name characters years >> ago. There are conflicts with various usages (ecpg & psql variables). >> This is actually a place where the current := behavior could cause some >> issues, though I'm not aware of any at the moment. > > Oh, that's a shame. > > In that case, how about: > > 'foo' >> 'bar' +1 merlin