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From: Pavel Stehule <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: remove undocumented assign syntax from plpgsql doc
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:36:18 +0100
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2014/1/13 Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>

> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 06:10:24AM +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> >     I find the rules above so complex that I don't see how we can
> recommend
> >     a best syntax.  What I did in the patch I just posted was to put the
> >     preferred operator first, but I don't see why we want to get into
> these
> >     details in the docs.
> >
> >
> > just a note about preferred variant should be ok. Using ':=' in GET
> DIAGNOSTICS
> > statement is just bad idea.
>
> Agreed.  I added a sentence in the first mention of GET DIAGNOSTICS, and
> indicated it was generic for that command.  What I also added was your
> description of when to use := and =, but I put it in the C comments so
> we have a record of it and if we need to expand the description or
> behavior later.
>

I'll be more happy if a comment about GET DIAGNOSTICS statement will be in
user space.

Regards

Pavel


>
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