Re: hstore ==> and deprecate =>

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'

Best,

David