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On 1/12/23 18:14, Tom Lane wrote:

> Pretty much the only available syntax space is curly braces,
> and I don't really want to give those up for this either.
> (One has to assume that the SQL committee has their eyes
> on those too.)

They are used in row pattern recognition.
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Vik Fearing