Re: pgsql: docs: update PL/pgSQL docs about the use of := and = - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: pgsql: docs: update PL/pgSQL docs about the use of := and =
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Msg-id 20140117003030.GC15696@momjian.us
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In response to Re: pgsql: docs: update PL/pgSQL docs about the use of := and =  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 07:23:48PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> Surely this is wrong:
>
>    Equals (<literal>:=</>) can be used instead of SQL-standard
>    <literal>=</> for <command>GET DIAGNOSTICS</>.
>
>
> I usually pronounce ":=" as "becomes". Other people read it as "is
> assigned" and most refer to it by name as the "assignment operator"
> or "assignment". Whatever it is it's surely not "equals".

Oh, yes, fixed in the attached, applied patch.

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