Re: your mail

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: doug@the-bridge.net (Doug Smith)
Cc: pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-10-18T03:37:44Z
Lists: pgsql-general
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> Why is that I can only cat two variables in a select statement.
> ex. select lastname||' '||firstname||' '||address
> Delivers an parseing error at "||". When trying 
> ex. select lastnamae||firstname 
> It works fine.
> What's up?
> Doug...

It is a know problem on the TODO list.  We don't have a fix for 6.4 yet,
and at this point, it would have to be in a post-6.4 release.  If
someone wants to take it on, go ahead.  It is a parser problem.


-- 
  Bruce Momjian                        |  http://www.op.net/~candle
  maillist@candle.pha.pa.us            |  (610) 853-3000
  +  If your life is a hard drive,     |  830 Blythe Avenue
  +  Christ can be your backup.        |  Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026