| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| 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 19:39:07 |
| Message-ID: | 20140111193907.GL28089@momjian.us |
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On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 02:12:49PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > Oh, I think you are right. I have reverted the patch. Attached is
> > proposed documentation for '='.
>
> Meh. Variable initialization is only one of multiple cases (assignment,
> GET DIAGNOSTICS; maybe others, I've not examined the grammar). Also,
> if we do it like this, we're implying that both := and = are equally
> preferred, which might not be the impression we want to leave.
>
> I'd be a bit inclined to just stick a NOTE somewhere saying that "="
> can be used in place of ":=" for assignment.
OK, here is an updated doc patch that does that. The next question is
whether we want examples using '=' instead of ':='? Right now we have
them, and Pavel's patch removed them.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
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