Hello 2013/5/28 Moshe Jacobson <moshe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > > > -- > Moshe Jacobson > Nead Werx, Inc. | Manager of Systems Engineering > 2323 Cumberland Parkway, Suite 201 | Atlanta, GA 30339 > moshe@xxxxxxxxxxxx | www.neadwerx.com > > "Quality is not an act, it is a habit." -- Aristotle -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
