Re: Boolean operators without commutators vs. ALL/ANY

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Florian Pflug <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org> wrote:
>>> (B) There should be a way to use ANY()/ALL() with the
>>> array elements becoming the left arguments of the operator.
>
>> It seems to me that if we provided some way of handling this, your
>> first proposal would be moot; and I have to say I like the idea of
>> allowing this a lot more than tinkering with the operator names.
>
> There are syntactic reasons not to do that.  It'd be a lot easier just
> to provide a commutator operator for ~.

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