Re: hstore ==> and deprecate =>

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe that the consensus was mostly in favor of deprecating => as
> an operator name, with the intent to abolish it completely in a future
> release.  Attached is a patch to implement ==> as an alternative
> operator name for hstore, and to make the backend throw a warning when
> => is used as an operator name.
>
> One wart is that => is used not only as a SQL-level operator, but also
> by hstore_in() when interpreting hstore-type literals, and by
> hstore_out() when generating them.  My gut feeling is that we should
> leave this part alone and only muck with the SQL operator, but perhaps
> someone will care to argue the point.
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-05/msg01501.php

hm.  any chance of a  shorter operator, like '#'?  I kinda agree that
hstore_in and the operator don't have to be the same, but requiring
three letter token for the two most high traffic operations w/hstore
seems off to me.

# is currently used for bitwise xor/geo

merlin