Re: proposal: disallow operator "=>" and use it for named parameters

Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Presumably we are going to change it at some point; maybe we
>> should just do it rather than waiting another 5 years.

> +1

> It has been deprecated long enough that I don't see the point of waiting.

Uh, just to clarify, this has nothing to do with how long the operator has
been deprecated. The issue is whether pg_dump should dump a function-call
syntax that will not be recognized by any pre-9.5 release, when there is
an alternative that will be recognized back to 9.0.

BTW, I just noticed another place that probably should be changed:

regression=# select foo(x => 1);
ERROR: 42883: function foo(x := integer) does not exist
LINE 1: select foo(x => 1);
^
HINT: No function matches the given name and argument types. You might need to add explicit type casts.
LOCATION: ParseFuncOrColumn, parse_func.c:516

regards, tom lane