Re: @ versus ~, redux - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: @ versus ~, redux
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Msg-id 2021.1157325497@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: @ versus ~, redux  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: @ versus ~, redux  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> How about?:
> 4. do 1+3, i.e. flip the GIN operators to keep core consistency, but 
> deprecate the operators for both contrib and core. Something more 
> visually like set ops would be ideal.

If we're going to adopt new preferred names, I see no reason to support
the old confusing names for operators that have never existed before
8.2.  There is no backward-compatibility argument to be made there.
        regards, tom lane


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