| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(dot)wheeler(at)pgexperts(dot)com> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Update hstore % Doc |
| Date: | 2010-08-06 22:32:47 |
| Message-ID: | 12376.1281133967@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"David E. Wheeler" <david(dot)wheeler(at)pgexperts(dot)com> writes:
> On Aug 6, 2010, at 3:16 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> It looks to me like you are changing the examples of the I/O
>> representation ... which did NOT change.
> Hrm? The first few examples at the top? I find them confusing because there are no single quotes around them, so they look like the use of the deprecated => operator (especially the first two). Just look at:
Yeah, but there's a sentence in front of them that says specifically
that these are examples of the text representation, not pieces of SQL.
> And I hate to say it, but % is awful.
Yeah, I know, but you can't have =>. Unless you can persuade the SQL
committee to back off their syntax choice for parameters. (:= would
have been a lot better ...)
regards, tom lane
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