On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 01:31:49PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Given the infrequency of use of postfix operators compared to prefix, > I am inclined to think that we should change the grammar to make the > latter easier to use at the expense of the former. On the other hand, > it seems there's a pretty large risk of backwards-incompatibility here. > Comments? I say, go for it! :) if it matters anything :] And the backwards incompatibility should be simply mentioned in release notes. Only problem is, that this is such a obscure incompatibility that I am not sure e.g. distro packagers bother to mention it in new 7.1 install splash-screens. "If you have used factorial '!' or start of interval '|' operator in expressions, note that ..." ? -- marko
