Re: your mail

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: doug(at)the-bridge(dot)net (Doug Smith)
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: your mail
Date: 1998-10-18 03:37:44
Message-ID: 199810180337.XAA18730@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Why is that I can only cat two variables in a select statement.
> ex. select lastname||' '||firstname||' '||address
> Delivers an parseing error at "||". When trying
> ex. select lastnamae||firstname
> It works fine.
> What's up?
> Doug...

It is a know problem on the TODO list. We don't have a fix for 6.4 yet,
and at this point, it would have to be in a post-6.4 release. If
someone wants to take it on, go ahead. It is a parser problem.

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