Re: factorial function/phase out postfix operators? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: factorial function/phase out postfix operators?
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In response to Re: factorial function/phase out postfix operators?  (John Naylor <john.naylor@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: factorial function/phase out postfix operators?  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 4:44 AM John Naylor <john.naylor@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 5:04 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > I'm a bit inclined to kill them both off and standardize on factorial()
> > (not numeric_fac).
>
> +1

Here's a modified version of John's patch that also describes ! and !!
as deprecated. It looked too wordy to me to recommend what should be
used instead, so I have not done that.

Comments?

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Robert Haas
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The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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