Re: ANY/SOME/ALL with noncommutable operators

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> I can do
> 'abc' LIKE ANY (ARRAY['a%','b%'])

> but not

> ANY (ARRAY['abc', 'def']) LIKE '%a'

> This seems to be a failing in the SQL standard. You can work around this by 
> creating your own operators, but maybe there should be a general solution, as 
> there are a lot of noncommutable operators and this example doesn't seem all 
> that unuseful in practice.

> Comments?

Making the commutator operator where you need it *is* a general solution.
I think there's a syntactic-ambiguity reason why the spec is like that...
        regards, tom lane