Re: Range Types and extensions

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
Cc: Darren Duncan <darren(at)darrenduncan(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Range Types and extensions
Date: 2011-06-07 17:59:33
Message-ID: 16950.1307469573@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 14:42 -0700, Darren Duncan wrote:
>> Can Pg be changed to support "." in operator names as long as they don't just
>> appear by themselves? What would this break to do so?

> Someone else would have to comment on that.

DOT_DOT is already a token in plpgsql; trying to make it be also an
operator name would break a lot of existing plpgsql code.

regards, tom lane

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