Re: [GENERAL] text + text

2004-10-08 Thread Tom Lane
David Garamond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Peter Eisentraut wrote: >>> What is "text + text" supposed to do right now? >> >> Nothing. > Then are these bugs? (7.4.5 and 8.0.0beta1 give same results). Frankly, > the current behaviour is quite strange to me. CVS tip gives regression=# select co

Re: [GENERAL] text + text

2004-10-08 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, David Garamond wrote: > Peter Eisentraut wrote: > >>What is "text + text" supposed to do right now? > > > > Nothing. > > Then are these bugs? (7.4.5 and 8.0.0beta1 give same results). Frankly, > the current behaviour is quite strange to me. > > -- > =# select co

Re: [GENERAL] text + text

2004-10-08 Thread David Garamond
Peter Eisentraut wrote: What is "text + text" supposed to do right now? Nothing. Then are these bugs? (7.4.5 and 8.0.0beta1 give same results). Frankly, the current behaviour is quite strange to me. -- =# select coalesce('1'+'0','NULL'); a =# select coalesce('1'+'1','NULL'); b =

Re: [GENERAL] text + text

2004-10-08 Thread Peter Eisentraut
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 t

[GENERAL] text + text

2004-10-08 Thread David Garamond
What is "text + text" supposed to do right now? It doesn't seem very useful to me. 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). -- dave ---(end of broadcast