Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hTJHC-0000nL-DR for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Wed, 22 May 2019 04:54:54 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hTJHA-0006hq-Ov for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Wed, 22 May 2019 04:54:52 +0000 Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([2001:4800:3e1:1::229]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hTJHA-0006hj-DG for pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org; Wed, 22 May 2019 04:54:52 +0000 Received: from lungold.riddles.org.uk ([82.68.208.19]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hTJH3-0003TW-67 for pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org; Wed, 22 May 2019 04:54:51 +0000 Received: from [192.168.127.1] (port=12553 helo=caithnard.riddles.org.uk) by lungold.riddles.org.uk with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.88 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1hTJGx-000Gry-SW; Wed, 22 May 2019 04:54:39 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (port=34347 helo=caithnard.riddles.org.uk) by caithnard.riddles.org.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.89 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1hTJGx-000GsA-7N; Wed, 22 May 2019 04:54:39 +0000 From: Andrew Gierth To: Robert Haas Cc: Tom Lane , PostgreSQL Hackers Subject: Re: SQL-spec incompatibilities in similar_escape() and related stuff In-Reply-To: (Robert Haas's message of "Fri, 17 May 2019 11:53:52 -0400") Message-ID: <87tvdnccqi.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk> References: <14047.1557708214@sss.pgh.pa.us> <8736lihni6.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk> <87v9yeg69c.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk> <87k1eufem8.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk> <4486.1557769997@sss.pgh.pa.us> <87d0kmfbpq.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (berkeley-unix) Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 05:54:38 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Robert" == Robert Haas writes: Robert> But the number of people using out-of-core postfix operators Robert> has got to be really tiny -- unless, maybe, there's some really Robert> popular extension like PostGIS that uses them. If there's any extension that uses them I've so far failed to find it. For the record, the result of my Twitter poll was 29:2 in favour of removing them, for what little that's worth. -- Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)