Re: operator precedence issues

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: operator precedence issues
Date: 2013-09-03 14:13:12
Message-ID: 15949.1378217592@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)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

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