Re: [HACKERS] Re: subselects
Vadim B. Mikheev <vadim@sable.krasnoyarsk.su>
From: "Vadim B. Mikheev" <vadim@sable.krasnoyarsk.su>
To: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>, hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 1998-01-12T09:40:48Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Thomas G. Lockhart wrote: > > btw, to implement "(a,b,c) OP (d,e,f)" I made a new routine in the parser called > makeRowExpr() which breaks this up into a sequence of "and" and/or "or" expressions. > If lists are handled farther back, this routine should move to there also and the > parser will just pass the lists. Note that some assumptions have to be made about the > meaning of "(a,b) OP (c,d)", since usually we only have knowledge of the behavior of > "a OP c". Easy for the standard SQL operators, unknown for others, but maybe it is OK > to disallow those cases or to look for specific appearance of the operator to guess > the behavior (e.g. if the operator has "<" or "=" or ">" then build as "and"s and if > it has "<>" or "!" then build as "or"s. Sorry, I forgot something: is (a, b) OP (x, y) in standard ? If not then I suggest to don't implement it at all and allow (a, b) OP [ANY|ALL] (subselect) only. Vadim