On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:56:00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> [... cut advice ...]
Thanks.
> How wedded are you to being able to say "IN"?
It's only a would-be-nice-to-have.
My dnaseq data type exploits the fact that DNA sequences are made from a
very small alphabet (four characters), so strings can b
Troels Arvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I assume this is because the POSITION function uses "IN" to separate
> arguments, in stead of a comma. Is there a way to overload it?
Double-quote "position" in the create function command --- it's a
keyword.
Be aware also of the argument order gotcha.
Hello,
I'm working on a datatype which I call dnaseq. The basic stuff like
input/output functions, comparison operators, etc., work well.
I have overloaded the CHARACTER_LENGTH function without problems:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION character_length(dnaseq)
RETURNS integer
AS 'dnaseq','dnaseq_char
