David <dbree(at)duo-county(dot)com> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 08:43:20PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> There is no difference between := and = in plpgsql: the scanner treats
>> them as the same token.
> I can almost picture seeing the statement that you _must_ use ":=" in a
> variable assignment, and that there was a difference, but apparently I
> dreamed it or it's a fact in some other application.
I think that only the := variant is shown in the documentation, but they
work the same.
regards, tom lane