| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pgsql: docs: update PL/pgSQL docs about the use of := and = |
| Date: | 2014-01-17 00:30:30 |
| Message-ID: | 20140117003030.GC15696@momjian.us |
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On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 07:23:48PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> Surely this is wrong:
>
> Equals (<literal>:=</>) can be used instead of SQL-standard
> <literal>=</> for <command>GET DIAGNOSTICS</>.
>
>
> I usually pronounce ":=" as "becomes". Other people read it as "is
> assigned" and most refer to it by name as the "assignment operator"
> or "assignment". Whatever it is it's surely not "equals".
Oh, yes, fixed in the attached, applied patch.
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