Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes: > Is telling hstore users they have to change => to something else such a > large major version incompatibility that it is worth supporting and > documenting two syntaxes for parameter assignment? It is that calculus > that has me questioning our approach.
Well it's not only hstore. Anyone can CREATE OPERATOR => on any released version of PostgreSQL currently. I don't think we can deprecate it on short notice, so we'll have := in 9.0, and maybe a deprecation notice for =>. Now that it's pretty clear from Peter that the standard is not going to change its choice here, I'll vote adding a WARNING each time an operator called => is created, so that we get a chance to move later on. Regards, -- dim -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
