From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: remove undocumented assign syntax from plpgsql doc |
Date: | 2014-01-13 02:48:46 |
Message-ID: | 20140113024846.GA22464@momjian.us |
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On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 06:38:04AM +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote:
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> 2014/1/12 Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
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> On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 10:06:27PM +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote:
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> > 2014/1/11 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > GET DIAGNOSTICS is defined by standard - and there "=" should be allowed
> only -
> > although we allow ":=" too. It is a embedded SQL statement - although it
> is
> > implemented as plpgsql statement.
>
> OK, docs updated for that. I assume OPEN and FOR also can take := or =,
> right?
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>
> no, there are not used assign_operator
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> It is used only in DECLARE DEFAULT, ASSIGN and GET DIAGNOSTICS
>
OK, patch updated and attached.
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