Thread: RE: [HACKERS] Use of multiple || and precidence

RE: [HACKERS] Use of multiple || and precidence

From
Michael Davis
Date:
Yes!!!!
-----Original Message-----From:    Bruce Momjian [SMTP:maillist@candle.pha.pa.us]Sent:    Wednesday, March 17, 1999
1:58PMTo:    hackers@postgreSQL.orgSubject:    [HACKERS] Use of multiple || and precidence
 
I have made a change so that all operators except "+-*/%" are nowleft-associative, rather than being non-associative:
    select 'a' || 'b' || 'c';
The old code does:
    test=> select 'a' || 'b' || 'c';    ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "||"
Is this a problem for people?  It will now not complain about
missingparens, but left-associate all these operations.  Any problems withthat?
The code still associates "+-*/%" so that "*/%" is done first, then"+-".
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