Re: hstore ==> and deprecate =>

On Jun 17, 2010, at 1:50 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:

>> It isn't.  || already does what you're saying.
>
> So what *does* it do?

It returns an hstore that's effectively a slice of another hstore. From the docs
(http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/hstore.html):

'a=>1,b=>2,c=>3'::hstore => ARRAY['b','c','x']

Result is:

'"b"=>"2", "c"=>"3"'::hstore

Best,

David