Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2013-09-03 08:59:53 -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote:
>> While playing around with Andres's trick, I noticed that it works but
>> will not match against operators taking "any" although those will
>> match with explicit schema declaration (FWICT it goes through the
>> search_path trying to explicitly match int/int operator then goes
>> again matches "any"). That's pretty weird:
> Not surprising. We look for the best match for an operator and
> explicitly matching types will be that. If there were no operator(int,
> int) your anyelement variant should get called.
Yeah, this has exactly nothing to do with operator precedence.
Precedence is about which operator binds tighter in cases like "A+B*C".
regards, tom lane
