Re: deprecating =>, take two

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: deprecating =>, take two
Date: 2010-06-21 17:03:19
Message-ID: AANLkTimH2iEJW6xqhlhKJrdN_wSQMermspdIjifPBVmx@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of lun jun 21 12:20:59 -0400 2010:
>
>> Barring vigorous objections, I will apply these tomorrow so that we
>> can consider deprecating => as an operator name in 9.1, for better
>> compliance with the SQL standard.
>
> Maybe this is just a matter of semantics, but I thought we were going to
> deprecate => in 9.0 so that people started to avoid its use altogether.
> Why wait till 9.1 to recommend avoidance?
>
> I had imagined that 9.1 was going to ban => altogether.

Sorry, bad phrasing on my part. Your understanding matches mine.

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Robert Haas
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