Re: proposal: disallow operator "=>" and use it for named parameters

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> two years a operator "=>" is marked as deprecated (from PostgreSQL 9.2).
>
> Isn't time to use it for named parameters now (for PostgreSQL 9.5) ?

I'm cool with that. It's possible that there are installations out
there that still have => operators installed, but every
still-supported release warns you not to do that, and the hstore
change exists in three released versions. Anyway, no amount of
waiting will eliminate the hazard completely.

> I am sending a implementation where syntax based on "=>" symbol is second
> (but preferred) variant of ":=" syntax .. syntax ":=" will be supported
> still.
>
> Here is a patch

I think you should just remove the WARNING, not change it to an error.
If somebody wants to quote the operator name to be able to continue
using it, I think that's OK.

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