Re: [HACKERS] initdb problem and operator question

Thomas G. Lockhart writes:
> Not currently used. afaik this syntax wasn't allowed in the Ingres
> embedded SQL. Do other ones allow it? Perhaps you could implement it in

Not that I know of. But I like the possibility to allow it. And why
shouldn't we be better than the commercial ones? :-)

> your scanner as a special case? That way, extra spaces could be used to
> allow "->" to continue to be a potential Postgres operator...

You mean: :a->b means the variable and :a -> b means the operator? Sounds
good to me.

I'll check that

Michael

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