Re: your mail - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: your mail
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Msg-id 199810180337.XAA18730@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to ...  ("Doug Smith" <doug@the-bridge.net>)
List pgsql-general
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> Why is that I can only cat two variables in a select statement.
> ex. select lastname||' '||firstname||' '||address
> Delivers an parseing error at "||". When trying
> ex. select lastnamae||firstname
> It works fine.
> What's up?
> Doug...

It is a know problem on the TODO list.  We don't have a fix for 6.4 yet,
and at this point, it would have to be in a post-6.4 release.  If
someone wants to take it on, go ahead.  It is a parser problem.


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