On Jun 3, 2010, at 8:54 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Thinking some more, what is the value of keeping => in hstore for 9.0?
>
> Backwards compatibility. You have not made any argument today that we
> have not been over many times before. I do not have time to argue
> about this today --- I have to go fix max_standby_delay.
I'm sure there's a lot of code using => in the wild. We can't just drop them without a deprecation cycle.
Best,
David