On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> As Geoff says, you don't have to use the operators; you could use the
> equivalent functions instead. Every operator just gets turned into a
> function call internally, so this is always possible.
>
In most cases - the decision to tie indexing to operators makes this
imperfect. Whether there is an actual problem with these operators I am
unsure.
David J.