On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 02:12:49PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes:
> > Oh, I think you are right. I have reverted the patch. Attached is
> > proposed documentation for '='.
>
> Meh. Variable initialization is only one of multiple cases (assignment,
> GET DIAGNOSTICS; maybe others, I've not examined the grammar). Also,
> if we do it like this, we're implying that both := and = are equally
> preferred, which might not be the impression we want to leave.
>
> I'd be a bit inclined to just stick a NOTE somewhere saying that "="
> can be used in place of ":=" for assignment.
OK, here is an updated doc patch that does that. The next question is
whether we want examples using '=' instead of ':='? Right now we have
them, and Pavel's patch removed them.
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+ Everyone has their own god. +
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml
new file mode 100644
index ca2c2b5..4cf9be9
*** a/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml
--- b/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml
*************** arow RECORD;
*** 343,348 ****
--- 343,349 ----
is specified, an assignment of a null value results in a run-time
error. All variables declared as <literal>NOT NULL</>
must have a nonnull default value specified.
+ Equals (<literal>=</>) can be used instead of <literal>:=</>.
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