Thread

COMMUTATOR doesn't seem to work

D'Arcy Cain <darcy@druid.net> — 2012-06-21T15:46:54Z

Maybe I am using it wrong but I get no error message when I use it.  I
have a type called chkpass (a version is in the additional supplied
modules) and I create the equality operator like this:

CREATE OPERATOR = (
         PROCEDURE = eq,
         LEFTARG = chkpass,
         RIGHTARG = text,
         COMMUTATOR = =,
         NEGATOR = <>
);

This works;

cosmostest=# SELECT 'aaa'::chkpass = 'aaa';
  ?column?
----------
  t
(1 row)

But...

cosmostest=# SELECT 'aaa' = 'aaa'::chkpass;
ERROR:  operator is only a shell: text = chkpass
LINE 1: SELECT 'aaa' = 'aaa'::chkpass;

When I look at the operators I see why, sort of...

  public | =    | chkpass       | text           | boolean     |
  public | =    | text          | chkpass        | -           |

So while it created the operator it didn't set a return type.

I don't know if this is a new issue or I simply got lucky and never
tried the opposite test before but I see this in 9.0.4 and 9.1.3.
Am I using the command improperly?

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