Re: Regular expressions and arrays and ANY() question

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, webb(dot)sprague(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Regular expressions and arrays and ANY() question
Date: 2007-01-23 15:56:54
Message-ID: 20070123155654.GH5470@fetter.org
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On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 09:30:49AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> > If you created such a function, and made an operator with it that
> > was a communtator of LIKE (call it "is liked by"), would the
> > planner be smart enough to split the ANY and commutate it to the
> > normal order?
>
> No, at least not as of 8.2, because ANY translates as a
> ScalarArrayOpExpr which only comes in the one flavor (array on the
> right).

How hard would it be to add the array-on-the-left flavor?

Cheers,
D
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