Re: Wish: remove ancient constructs from Postgres

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 00:25:57 +0300,
  Nikolay Samokhvalov <samokhvalov@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/26/06, Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> past'. Yes, standard is 'talkative', but I prefer only standard
> things, because it helps me to understand other databases and
> 'academical things'. Actually, I hate ':=', '::', 'INT2', etc, and
> really want to be able to deprecate them (via conf or something)

I find :: to be much more readable than cast().

> 3. 'Ugly' things like DISTINCT ON expression [, ...] (see
> http://chernowiki.ru/index.php?node=38#A13)

The alternatives to distinct on are painful. They are generally both harder
to read and run slower.