Re: bit|varbit #, xor operator

On 10/17/16 11:29 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com> writes:
>> On 10/16/16 3:13 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>> Related to this I'd also like to add a boolean XOR operator as that's a
>>>> relatively common request/question.
>
>>> We have boolean XOR; it's spelled "<>".
>
>> I always forget about that...
>
> Maybe it should be mentioned explicitly in the docs.

Hrm, went to go add it and it appears we don't have a section for
boolean type operators. I guess I should add it to 9.1?

>> though, it doesn't work for boolean arrays.
>
> Define doesn't work?

I would expect array[true, false] XOR array[true, true] to return
array[false, true], but <> just returns a single true (since the arrays
are !=).

Though, I guess what would make the most sense there is a map function
that would apply an operator or function to every element of a set of
arrays. But I don't see any way to do that without major changes to how
anyarray works.
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