Re: Defining my own operator's precedence

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: Pierre Racine <racine_pierre(at)hotmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Defining my own operator's precedence
Date: 2006-03-05 17:16:40
Message-ID: 20060305171640.GA7815@svana.org
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On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 05:13:11PM +0000, Pierre Racine wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have develop my own data type and my own operators on this data type. I
> could not find how to tell PostgreSQL which precedence I want to assign to
> my operator. For example, I want my unary operator "~" to have a higher
> precedence than my "+" operator. For now I have to use parenthesis to avoid
> ambiguity. I would prefer being able to define implicit precedence.

Sorry, not possible. :( You pretty much have to choose operators whose
precedence matches what you want.

Have a nice day,

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