row wise comparison broken

From: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: row wise comparison broken
Date: 2004-09-09 14:09:01
Message-ID: 20040909.230901.70226609.t-ishii@sra.co.jp
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Following result seems strange since it is not what the standard
expects:

test=# select (1,1) > (0,10);
?column?
----------
f
(1 row)

On the other hand I see following in the doc:

-----------------------------------------
9.17.5. Row-wise Comparison

(expression [, expression ...]) operator (expression [, expression ...])

Each side is a list of scalar expressions; the two lists must be of
the same length. Each side is evaluated and they are compared
row-wise. Presently, only = and <> operators are allowed in row-wise
comparisons.
-----------------------------------------

I guess this means that PostgreSQL does not fully support SQL's
row-wise comparison. We need to add this to the TODO list?
--
Tatsuo Ishii

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