Re: [PATCH] Extend ALTER OPERATOR to support adding commutator, negator, hashes, and merges

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 11:42:15AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> writes:
> > Anyway, if this doesn't raise any "oh we didn't think of this"
> > concerns, we'll just remove the old operators in pgsphere.
> 
> Well, the idea was exactly to forbid that sort of setup.
> However, if we get sufficient pushback maybe we should
> reconsider --- for example, maybe it'd be sane to enforce
> the restriction in ALTER but not CREATE?
> 
> I'm inclined to wait and see if there are more complaints.

FWIW, rdkit also fails, but that seems to be an ancient thing as well:

https://github.com/rdkit/rdkit/issues/7843

I guess there's no way to make that error a bit more helpful, like
printing out the offenbding SQL command, presumably because we are
loding an extension?


Michael