On 2020-Apr-20, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > There's one with a separate column for the operator, without types, at
> > the left (the "with names" example at
> > https://postgr.es/m/14380.1587242177@sss.pgh.pa.us ). That seemed
> > pretty promising -- not sure why it was discarded.
>
> Well, I wouldn't say it was discarded --- but there sure wasn't
> a groundswell of support.
Ah.
> Looking at it again, I'd be inclined not to bother with the
> morerows trick but just to have an operator name entry in each row.
> This table is a bit of an outlier anyway, I'm finding --- very few
> of the operator tables have multiple entries per operator name.
No disagreement here. 'morerows' attribs are always a messy business.
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