On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 3:41 PM Michael Nolan <htf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Recently I was typing in a query in PG 10.4. > > What I MEANT to type was: Where xyz >= 2400 > > What I actually typed was: Where xyz >- 2400 > > The latter was interpreted as 'where xyz > -2400', but I'm wondering if it > shouldn't have thrown an error on an unrecognized operator '>-' > >From the syntax section of the documentation: A multiple-character operator name cannot end in + or -, unless the name also contains at least one of these characters: ~ ! @ # % ^ & | ` ? For example, @- is an allowed operator name, but *- is not. This restriction allows PostgreSQL to parse SQL-compliant queries without requiring spaces between tokens. David J.
