Precedence of '|' operator (was Re: [patch,rfc] binary operators on integers)

Tom Lane writes:

> Even though I think '|' is clearly given a bogus precedence, I doubt
> it's a good idea to change it.

The only builtin '|' operator, besides the not-there-yet bitor, is some
arcane prefix operator for the "tinterval" type, which returns the start
of the interval. This is all long dead so that would perhaps give us a
chance to change this before we add "or" operators. That might weigh more
than the possibility of a few users having highly specialized '|'
operators that rely on this precedence.

The tinterval type has pretty interesting parsing rules, btw.:

peter=# select 'whatever you say'::tinterval;
?column?
-----------------------------------------------------
["1935-12-23 09:42:00+01" "1974-04-16 17:52:52+01"]
(1 row)

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