On Sun, 21 Oct 2001 14:14:05 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >Looks like these are "shell" operator definitions left over from >commutator or negator forward references that were never satisfied. >pg_dump did the right thing to not dump them. I'd say that the backend >should never have accepted a shell operator def with an empty name, >though, which is what you seem to have at OID 280347. > >Do you happen to have the exact command that you gave to create >operator 280343 (numeric_neq)? I think what this really boils down >to is insufficient error checking somewhere in CREATE OPERATOR.
Fortunately I still have the scripts. I used pgAdminII. But I think some time earlier I used psql for the same operator. So shouldn't make any difference. I used the two scripts below. I think in that particular order. (Still wondering, why there is a negator '<>' in the first one :-) I just tested them again. No error message. And I've got one with an empty name! Always wondered why. (1) create function numeric_eq(numeric,float8) returns bool as ' select $1 = $2::numeric; ' language 'sql'; create operator = ( leftarg=numeric, rightarg=float8, procedure=numeric_eq, commutator='=', negator='<>', restrict=eqsel, join=eqjoinsel ); (2) create function numeric_neq(numeric,float8) returns bool as ' select $1 = $2::numeric; ' language 'sql'; create operator <> ( leftarg=numeric, rightarg=float8, procedure=numeric_neq, commutator='<>', negator='', restrict=eqsel, join=eqjoinsel ); regards Johann Zuschlag [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster