On Jun 11, 2010, at 7:59 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> How about no operator at all? It won't be as cool to read, but
>> consider, the arguments are text and text, not involving any hstore type
>> at all, so whatever operator you choose is in practice blocked from
>> everyone everywhere. No one could ever implement another key/value
>> system that uses a similar interface. Or use the operator for anything
>> else involving strings.
>
> Yeah, that's a good point. Maybe we should just deprecate the operator
> altogether.
That would make it so that the use of => in hstore strings would be less consistent. Makes sense to me.
Best,
David
