Re: Infix Function? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: Infix Function?
Date
Msg-id 20050626222145.GB2086@svana.org
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In response to Infix Function?  (Peter Fein <pfein@pobox.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 03:42:25PM -0500, Peter Fein wrote:
> Hi-
>
> I've defined an XOR function as:
>
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION xor(bool, bool)
>   RETURNS bool AS
> 'SELECT ($1 OR $2) AND NOT ($1 AND $2);'
>   LANGUAGE 'sql' IMMUTABLE STRICT;
>
> Is there anyway to create an infix version of this?  I'd really like be
> able to write (where a..d are some boolean conditions):

Judging by:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/sql-createoperator.html

operators can't be normal text strings...

Hope this helps,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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> tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone
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