Use of multiple || and precidence

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org (PostgreSQL-development)
Subject: Use of multiple || and precidence
Date: 1999-03-17 20:57:50
Message-ID: 199903172057.PAA16301@candle.pha.pa.us
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I have made a change so that all operators except "+-*/%" are now
left-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 missing
parens, but left-associate all these operations. Any problems with
that?

The code still associates "+-*/%" so that "*/%" is done first, then
"+-".

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