Re: factorial function/phase out postfix operators?

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: John Naylor <john(dot)naylor(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Mark Dilger <mark(dot)dilger(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Vik Fearing <vik(at)postgresfriends(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: factorial function/phase out postfix operators?
Date: 2020-08-28 15:01:44
Message-ID: CA+TgmobKLBoAQm2bAeeUWRe569Hmf78gheNbSDfGpgL1zNexRw@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 11:00 AM Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 4:44 AM John Naylor <john(dot)naylor(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 5:04 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > > I'm a bit inclined to kill them both off and standardize on factorial()
> > > (not numeric_fac).
> >
> > +1
>
> Here's a modified version of John's patch that also describes ! and !!
> as deprecated. It looked too wordy to me to recommend what should be
> used instead, so I have not done that.
>
> Comments?

Never mind, I see there's a new thread for this. Sorry for the noise.

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Robert Haas
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