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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: remove undocumented assign syntax from plpgsql doc
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 14:46:58 -0500
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Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes:
> OK, here is an updated doc patch that does that.

You're still only touching the variable-initialization case, which seems
like the least important place to document it.  I'd have put it with
the assignment-statement documentation.  Perhaps something like

    <note>
     <para>
      Here, and in other contexts such as variable initialization,
      the assignment operator can be written <literal>=</> as well
      as <literal>:=</>.  The latter is the preferred spelling, though.
     </para>
    </note>

> The next question is
> whether we want examples using '=' instead of ':='?  Right now we have
> them, and Pavel's patch removed them.

AFAIR, we have some of both, and I'm fine with that status quo.

			regards, tom lane


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