Forgive my ignorance -- do I need to be doing anything else now seeing as I started the review?
On 07/10/2011, at 7:15 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote: > 2011/10/6 Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com>: >> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >>> "David E. Wheeler" <da...@kineticode.com> writes: >>>>>> Would it then be added as an alias for := for named function parameters? >>>>>> Or would that come still later? >>> >>>>> Once we do that, it will be impossible not merely deprecated to use => >>>>> as an operator name. I think that has to wait at least another release >>>>> cycle or two past where we're using it ourselves. >>> >>>> Okay. I kind of like := so there's no rush AFAIC. :-) >>> >>> Hmm ... actually, that raises another issue that I'm not sure whether >>> there's consensus for or not. Are we intending to keep name := value >>> syntax forever, as an alternative to the standard name => value syntax? >>> I can't immediately see a reason not to, other than the "it's not >>> standard" argument. >>> >>> Because if we *are* going to keep it forever, there's no very good >>> reason why we shouldn't accept this plpgsql cursor patch now. We'd >>> just have to remember to extend plpgsql to take => at the same time >>> we do that for core function calls. >> >> It's hard to see adding support for => and dropping support for := in >> the same release. That would be a compatibility nightmare. >> >> If := is used by the standard for some other, incompatible purpose, >> then I suppose we would want to add support for =>, wait a few >> releases, deprecate :=, wait a couple of releases, remove := >> altogether. But IIRC we picked := precisely because the standard >> didn't use it at all, or at least not for anything related... in which >> case we may as well keep it around more or less indefinitely. > > +1 > > Pavel > >> >> -- >> Robert Haas >> EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com >> The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company >> >> -- >> Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) >> To make changes to your subscription: >> http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers >> > > -- > Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
