From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Steven Pousty <steve(dot)pousty(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Isaac Morland <isaac(dot)morland(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pierre Giraud <pierre(dot)giraud(at)dalibo(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Poll: are people okay with function/operator table redesign? |
Date: | 2020-04-17 23:16:59 |
Message-ID: | 6655.1587165419@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 4:04 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Especially not for unary operators, where
>> ALTER OPERATOR would have us write "- (NONE, integer)".
> I'd drop the parens for unary and just write "- integer"
We do have some postfix operators still ... although it looks like
there's only one in core. In any case, the signature line is *the*
thing that is supposed to specify what the syntax is, so I'm not
too pleased with using an ambiguous notation for it.
regards, tom lane
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