Re: Strange behavior of "=" as assignment operator

Hello

2013/5/28 Moshe Jacobson <moshe@neadwerx.com>:
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
>>
>> Both are supported.  It's not really documented as using '=' is
>> considered 'legacy' but it's also extensively used and removing it would
>> break quite a bit of code for people.
>
>
> This is crazy! By leaving it in, they are allowing my obsolescent code to
> compile and run without warning!
> This means that one day down the road, MY code is going to break because the
> developers assumed that this obsolescent behavior was OK to turn on by
> default.
> IMO they should have disabled the default acceptance of "=" and given us an
> option to enable it if our code broke.
> Not leaving it in by default.
>

There are lot of "undocumented features", that you can use in almost
all software (MS SQL, Oracle) on own risk.

> Any PG committers who can change this in 9.3?

I hope, so we will be able to identify and raise warning in 9.4.

Regards

Pavel

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