Re: Overloading functions that are used by operators.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Pflug [mailto:pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de]
> Sent: 10 July 2003 12:52
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: Donald Fraser; pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-support] Overloading functions that are
> used by operators.
>

> It "kind-of" works like this, but the question why the join
> won't work
> for Donald is still not answered.
> I created the same stuff as Donald, and pgadmin works ok.
> On my 7.4, po.oid=op.oprcode is evaluated as ::oid=::oid.
> Maybe on 7.3
> this is done po.oid::regproc::text=op.oprcode::regproc::text, which
> could lead to that problem.

If I create the textcat(bytea, bytea) function Donald suggests, then the
original query errors. The new one does not. I don't know why, but
clearly it is a PostgreSQL issue, not a pgAdmin one as your original
query is clearly valid.

Regards, Dave