Mark factorial operator, and postfix operators in general, as deprecated.
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Sun, 30 Aug 2020 18:37:24 +0000 (14:37 -0400)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Sun, 30 Aug 2020 18:37:24 +0000 (14:37 -0400)
commit6ca547cf75ef6e922476c51a3fb5e253eef5f1b6
tree1a793a438adf9be6e30bd4c06d6ff9ed840ff764
parent3d351d916b20534f973eda760cde17d96545d4c4
Mark factorial operator, and postfix operators in general, as deprecated.

Per discussion, we're planning to remove parser support for postfix
operators in order to simplify the grammar.  So it behooves us to
put out a deprecation notice at least one release before that.

There is only one built-in postfix operator, ! for factorial.
Label it deprecated in the docs and in pg_description, and adjust
some examples that formerly relied on it.  (The sister prefix
operator !! is also deprecated.  We don't really have to remove
that one, but since we're suggesting that people use factorial()
instead, it seems better to remove both operators.)

Also state in the CREATE OPERATOR ref page that postfix operators
in general are going away.

Although this changes the initial contents of pg_description,
I did not force a catversion bump; it doesn't seem essential.

In v13, also back-patch 4c5cf5431, so that there's someplace for
the <link>s to point to.

Mark Dilger and John Naylor, with some adjustments by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/BE2DF53D-251A-4E26-972F-930E523580E9@enterprisedb.com
doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
doc/src/sgml/ref/create_operator.sgml
doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
doc/src/sgml/typeconv.sgml
src/include/catalog/pg_operator.dat
src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat