Re: remove undocumented assign syntax from plpgsql doc

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: remove undocumented assign syntax from plpgsql doc
Date: 2014-01-11 19:02:46
Message-ID: 20140111190246.GG28089@momjian.us
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On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 01:52:30PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 10:02:20AM +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> >> remove undocumented syntax for assign statements in plpgsql doc examples
>
> > Applied.
>
> I thought the consensus in the referenced thread had been to go the other
> way. We're not going to remove the syntax option to use "=", so shouldn't
> we document it rather than pretending it doesn't exist?
>
> The end of the other thread was
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1370122048.6266.YahooMailNeo@web162902.mail.bf1.yahoo.com

Oh, I think you are right. I have reverted the patch. Attached is
proposed documentation for '='.

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