On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 01:52:30PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes:
> > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 10:02:20AM +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> >> remove undocumented syntax for assign statements in plpgsql doc examples
>
> > Applied.
>
> I thought the consensus in the referenced thread had been to go the other
> way. We're not going to remove the syntax option to use "=", so shouldn't
> we document it rather than pretending it doesn't exist?
>
> The end of the other thread was
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/[email protected]
Oh, I think you are right. I have reverted the patch. Attached is
proposed documentation for '='.
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml
new file mode 100644
index ca2c2b5..6c83789
*** a/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml
--- b/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml
*************** arow RECORD;
*** 328,334 ****
<para>
The general syntax of a variable declaration is:
<synopsis>
! <replaceable>name</replaceable> <optional> CONSTANT </optional> <replaceable>type</replaceable> <optional> COLLATE <replaceable>collation_name</replaceable> </optional> <optional> NOT NULL </optional> <optional> { DEFAULT | := } <replaceable>expression</replaceable> </optional>;
</synopsis>
The <literal>DEFAULT</> clause, if given, specifies the initial value assigned
to the variable when the block is entered. If the <literal>DEFAULT</> clause
--- 328,334 ----
<para>
The general syntax of a variable declaration is:
<synopsis>
! <replaceable>name</replaceable> <optional> CONSTANT </optional> <replaceable>type</replaceable> <optional> COLLATE <replaceable>collation_name</replaceable> </optional> <optional> NOT NULL </optional> <optional> { DEFAULT | := | = } <replaceable>expression</replaceable> </optional>;
</synopsis>
The <literal>DEFAULT</> clause, if given, specifies the initial value assigned
to the variable when the block is entered. If the <literal>DEFAULT</> clause
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