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From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: dsankaran@ivesia.com
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Writing the SQL queries inside Functions and operators
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 19:59:18 +0100
Message-ID: <200310211959.18560.dev@archonet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d493c499.0310202334.288f6b18@posting.google.com>
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On Tuesday 21 October 2003 08:34, Dharan wrote:
> Hi Friends,
>
>
> What is the use of user defined operators, as functions also perform
> the same job as an operator

Easier to write. Compare:
  'hello ' || ' there ' || 'everyone'
with
  text_concat('hello', text_concat('there', text_concat('everyone') ) )

-- 
  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd



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