Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This patch was installed, with xor as "#".  The parser still needs work.  
> Besides the known issue of "|", this also parses funny:

> => select 5 & ~ 6;
> ERROR:  Unable to identify a right operator '&' for type 'int4'

I think we're kind of stuck on that, at least in terms of a solution
specifically for ~ --- I don't think we should be wiring knowledge of
whether specific operators are prefix/suffix/infix into the grammar.

It might perhaps be possible to tweak the grammar so that

        operand operator operator operand

is generically resolved as

        operand infix-op (prefix-op operand)

and not

        (operand postfix-op) infix-op operand

the way it is now.  Given that postfix operators are relatively seldom
used, this seems a more sensible default --- but I suppose somewhere out
there is an application that will break.  (At least it probably won't
break silently.)

Comments anyone?

                        regards, tom lane

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