Re: functional call named notation clashes with SQL feature

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: functional call named notation clashes with SQL feature
Date: 2010-05-31 14:59:15
Message-ID: 12885.1275317955@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> So as far as I can tell, no one is opposed to replacing "expr AS name"
>> with "name := expr" in the named-parameter syntax. Obviously we had
>> better get this done before beta2. Is anyone actually working on the
>> code/docs changes? If not, I'll pick it up.

> If we eventually are going to want to support the ANSI standard "=>"
> syntax, I am thinking we should just do it now. The larger question is
> what justification do we have of not supporting "=>".

Not breaking hstore, as well as any third-party modules that might be
using that operator name. Did you not absorb any of the discussion
so far?

regards, tom lane

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