Re: Named Operators

I wrote:
> This approach does have a couple of shortcomings:

> * You still have to invent an operator name, even if you never
> plan to use it in queries. This is just cosmetic though.
> It's not going to matter if the operator name is long or looks like
> line noise, if you only need to use it a few times in setup DDL.

Oh, one other thought is that we could address that complaint
by allowing OPERATOR(identifier), so that your DDL could use
a meaningful name for the operator. I see that we don't
actually support OPERATOR() right now in CREATE OPERATOR or
ALTER OPERATOR:

regression=# create operator operator(+) (function = foo);
ERROR: syntax error at or near "("
LINE 1: create operator operator(+) (function = foo);
^

but I doubt that'd be hard to fix.

regards, tom lane