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Re: [WIP] Support for "ANY/ALL(array) op scalar" (Was: Re: Boolean operators without commutators vs. ALL/ANY)

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Florian Pflug <fgp@phlo.org>, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-06-16T04:40:36Z
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On ons, 2011-06-15 at 22:19 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> (FWIW, I've come around to liking the idea of using =~ and the obvious
> variants of that for regex operators, mainly because of the Perl
> precedent.)

Maybe I'm not completely up to date on this, but I observe that Perl
itself doesn't appear to have a commutator for =~ .