Hi-

I've defined an XOR function as:


CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION xor(bool, bool)
  RETURNS bool AS
'SELECT ($1 OR $2) AND NOT ($1 AND $2);'
  LANGUAGE 'sql' IMMUTABLE STRICT;

Is there anyway to create an infix version of this?  I'd really like be
able to write (where a..d are some boolean conditions):

a XOR b XOR c XOR d

instead of:

xor(a, xor(b, xor(c, d)))

which gets a little hard to understand as it gets long, esp. when mixed
with AND & OR.

I know one can do this with user-defined operators, but adding a #
operator for booleans seems ugly.  I thought I saw a way to do this, but
now I can't find it in the manual... TIA.

--Pete

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