Re: Wish: remove ancient constructs from Postgres

On 02/26/2006-10:36AM, Andrus Moor wrote:
>
> It is difficult to write standard-compliant code in Postgres.
> There are a lot of constructs which have SQL equivalents but are still used
> widely, even in samples in docs!
>
> For example, there are suggestions using
>
> now()::CHAR!=foo
>
> while the correct way is
>
> CAST(CURRENT_DATE AS CHAR)<>foo
>
> now() function, :: and != operators should be removed from language.
>
> I like the Python logic: there is one way

Actually the python logic is

"There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."

Perhaps the suggestion should be to only use the SQL standard forms in
the documentation, making them the 'obvious' way.