Am Freitag, 8. Oktober 2004 12:57 schrieb David Garamond:
> What is "text + text" supposed to do right now?

Nothing.

> What about making "text + text" as an equivalent for "text 
> || text"? Most strongly-typed programming languages do this. And MS SQL
> Server too, I think (CMIIW).

What would this gain except for bloat?  It's not like SQL is utterly 
compatible with any programming language; users will still have to learn all 
the operators anyway.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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