Andrew Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 06:04:43PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote: >> Yeah, excellent question. It seems completely unnecessary, but it is >> surely there in the syntax diagram.
> Probably because many Unicode representations are done with "U+" > followed by 4-6 hexadecimal units, but "+" is problematic for other > reasons (in some vendor's implementation)? They could hardly ignore the conflict with the operator interpretation for +. The committee has now cut themselves off from ever having a standard operator named &, but I suppose they didn't think ahead to that. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers