From: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Moshe Jacobson <moshe(at)neadwerx(dot)com> |
Cc: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Stephen Dolan <stephen(at)neadwerx(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: Strange behavior of "=" as assignment operator |
Date: | 2013-05-28 20:27:11 |
Message-ID: | CAFj8pRA=H_LD6-MuZc8Om-_Qo1EdUhCDJjHGP5eWJJDzR0JsxQ@mail.gmail.com |
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Hello
2013/5/28 Moshe Jacobson <moshe(at)neadwerx(dot)com>:
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
>>
>> Both are supported. It's not really documented as using '=' is
>> considered 'legacy' but it's also extensively used and removing it would
>> break quite a bit of code for people.
>
>
> This is crazy! By leaving it in, they are allowing my obsolescent code to
> compile and run without warning!
> This means that one day down the road, MY code is going to break because the
> developers assumed that this obsolescent behavior was OK to turn on by
> default.
> IMO they should have disabled the default acceptance of "=" and given us an
> option to enable it if our code broke.
> Not leaving it in by default.
>
There are lot of "undocumented features", that you can use in almost
all software (MS SQL, Oracle) on own risk.
> Any PG committers who can change this in 9.3?
I hope, so we will be able to identify and raise warning in 9.4.
Regards
Pavel
>
>
> --
> Moshe Jacobson
> Nead Werx, Inc. | Manager of Systems Engineering
> 2323 Cumberland Parkway, Suite 201 | Atlanta, GA 30339
> moshe(at)neadwerx(dot)com | www.neadwerx.com
>
> "Quality is not an act, it is a habit." -- Aristotle
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