Re: Strange behavior of "=" as assignment operator

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Moshe Jacobson <moshe(at)neadwerx(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Stephen Dolan <stephen(at)neadwerx(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Strange behavior of "=" as assignment operator
Date: 2013-06-01 05:18:57
Message-ID: 15502.1370063937@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> * Moshe Jacobson (moshe(at)neadwerx(dot)com) wrote:
>> Any PG committers who can change this in 9.3?

> It will certainly not be changed for 9.3.

IMO, if we do anything about this at all, it should be to document the
"=" option not remove it. If we change it, the squawks from people who
were (perhaps unintentionally) depending on the current behavior will
outnumber the plaudits from people who think that such a change is a
good idea by several orders of magnitude.

regards, tom lane

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