Re: functional call named notation clashes with SQL feature

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> So as far as I can tell, no one is opposed to replacing "expr AS name"
>> with "name := expr" in the named-parameter syntax.  Obviously we had
>> better get this done before beta2.  Is anyone actually working on the
>> code/docs changes?  If not, I'll pick it up.

> If we eventually are going to want to support the ANSI standard "=>"
> syntax, I am thinking we should just do it now.  The larger question is
> what justification do we have of not supporting "=>".

Not breaking hstore, as well as any third-party modules that might be
using that operator name.  Did you not absorb any of the discussion
so far?
        regards, tom lane