Re: [HACKERS] Operator definitions

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Adriaan Joubert <a(dot)joubert(at)albourne(dot)com>, Postgresql <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Operator definitions
Date: 1999-09-28 15:12:08
Message-ID: 199909281512.LAA19187@candle.pha.pa.us
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> > OK, I have applied a patch to fix all the operator cases for ^ and |.
> > This will be in 6.6.
> > The issue is that we want to specify precedence for the common math
> > operators, and I needed to be able to specify precedence for '|' so people
> > could do SELECT 'A' | 'B' | 'C'.
>
> I had already posted and applied a patch for the stable branch, since
> v6.5.2 was damaged wrt v6.5 functionality. The patch will also appear
> in RedHat's rpms for their RH6.1 release. I hadn't yet applied the
> patch to the main branch, but have it in my gram.y code where I'm
> working on join syntax.
>
> Can you compare your patch of the main branch with the very recent
> changes on the stable branch?
>
> Darn, back to cvs merge hell...
>

Man, there are tons of changes between the two.

Here are the changes I made. I can easily back this out, and re-add
after you are done.

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