Re: remove undocumented assign syntax from plpgsql doc - Mailing list pgsql-docs

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 01:52:30PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 10:02:20AM +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> >> remove undocumented syntax for assign statements in plpgsql doc examples
>
> > Applied.
>
> I thought the consensus in the referenced thread had been to go the other
> way.  We're not going to remove the syntax option to use "=", so shouldn't
> we document it rather than pretending it doesn't exist?
>
> The end of the other thread was
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1370122048.6266.YahooMailNeo@web162902.mail.bf1.yahoo.com

Oh, I think you are right.  I have reverted the patch.  Attached is
proposed documentation for '='.

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