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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Marc Cousin <cousinmarc@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: CREATE OPERATOR and precedence
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:31:41 -0400
Message-ID: <24641.1278599501@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201007081628.30860.cousinmarc@gmail.com>
References: <201007081628.30860.cousinmarc@gmail.com>

Marc Cousin <cousinmarc@gmail.com> writes:
> I just got caught by a precedence problem with CREATE OPERATOR.

> Obviously, it was mostly my fault (I didn't think of the precedence of my 
> operator at all), but I didn't find anything in the CREATE OPERATOR 
> documentation about it either.

CREATE OPERATOR has nothing to say on the subject because operator
precedences are hard-wired into the parser and can't be changed by
CREATE OPERATOR.  See

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/sql-syntax-lexical.html#SQL-PRECEDENCE

			regards, tom lane



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