On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 11:29, Radu-Adrian Popescu wrote: > What i'm saying is that i know that some of my colleagues, nice guys for > that matter, and good programmers, will come screaming > to me "what's with the b.s. error ?!?", and when i'll tell them that the sql > parser belives that's an inexisting operator, they'll start > cursing at it, just like i did. >
Does oracle or mysql or whichever db you like allow the use of $ in user defined operators? If so, how do they know the difference? For what it's worth, some policy should be enforced, because it shouldn't > matter how many spaces you put between the operator > and the operand, as writing SELECT * is the same as SELECT > *. > I rest my case. > Thats an invalid comparison. The problem is not that foo > $1 doesn't work, as your example put forth. The problem is that foo>$1 doesn't work, which by comparison would be SELECT* which would also not work. Robert Treat ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html
