On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 07:23:48PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> Surely this is wrong:
> 
>    Equals (<literal>:=</>) can be used instead of SQL-standard
>    <literal>=</> for <command>GET DIAGNOSTICS</>.
> 
> 
> I usually pronounce ":=" as "becomes". Other people read it as "is
> assigned" and most refer to it by name as the "assignment operator"
> or "assignment". Whatever it is it's surely not "equals".

Oh, yes, fixed in the attached, applied patch.

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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml
new file mode 100644
index 48880ce..c100c0e
*** a/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml
--- b/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml
*************** GET <optional> CURRENT </optional> DIAGN
*** 1428,1434 ****
       <acronym>SQL</acronym> command.  Note that <varname>RESULT_OID</>
       is only useful after an <command>INSERT</command> command into a
       table containing OIDs.
!      Equals (<literal>:=</>) can be used instead of SQL-standard
       <literal>=</> for <command>GET DIAGNOSTICS</>.
      </para>
  
--- 1428,1434 ----
       <acronym>SQL</acronym> command.  Note that <varname>RESULT_OID</>
       is only useful after an <command>INSERT</command> command into a
       table containing OIDs.
!      Colon-equal (<literal>:=</>) can be used instead of SQL-standard
       <literal>=</> for <command>GET DIAGNOSTICS</>.
      </para>
  
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