Re: hstore ==> and deprecate => - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Gierth
Subject Re: hstore ==> and deprecate =>
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Msg-id 87iq5srypw.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
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In response to Re: hstore ==> and deprecate =>  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: hstore ==> and deprecate =>  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
Robert> I don't think so, either.  The most someone might want to doRobert> is make ==> work wherever => does now, but
Iwouldn't want toRobert> start monkeying with that without some input from AndrewRobert> Gierth; and I don't think it's
astop-ship issue for 9.0.
 

I'd really like to find a better operator name than ==>. But I'm not
convinced one exists.

While I don't like the inconsistency between ==> or whatever and the use
of => in type input and output, I regard the text representation as being
much harder to change safely, since client code will be parsing it. In this
case the inconsistency seems like a much smaller problem than changing the
text representation.

-- 
Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)


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