Re: [ADMIN] Overloading functions that are used by operators.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: "Donald Fraser" <demolish(at)cwgsy(dot)net>, "[ADMIN]" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "[pgADMIN]" <pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Overloading functions that are used by operators.
Date: 2003-07-10 15:37:51
Message-ID: 7014.1057851471@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> Well I always thought you could overload functions in this way, however
> with your example below, although it creates it OK, PostgreSQL (not
> pgAdmin) gives the error 'ERROR: There is more than one function named
> textcat'.

I see no such error here ...

regression=# create function pg_catalog.textcat(varchar,text)
regression-# returns text as 'textcat' language 'internal';
CREATE FUNCTION

regards, tom lane

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