On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Tom Lane wrote: > The reason I'm hesitant to add a bunch more cross-type operators is > mainly that we have too darn many operators named "=" already. I've > seen in recent profiling tests that it's taking the parser a noticeable > amount of time to decide which one is meant. So I don't want to add a > lot more without a fairly credible use-case, and right now this doesn't > look like one to me.
Honestly, as long as we *could* reasonably add one, I don't have a complaint, because we aren't taking a step that involves a huge amount of work if we get a complaint or separately decide to be more compliant on this. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org