Re: Stupid question: concatenating strings

On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> Thomas Good <tomg@q8.nrnet.org> writes:
> > The || operator needs parentheses to concat > 2 items in Pg 6.3.2.  
> > Has this been fixed in subsequent versions?
> 
> You're still on 6.3.2?  Run, do not walk, to your nearest archive
> site for an update ...

Roger that - I did and installed 7.0.2 this morning.  As usual the
build went fine and to my amazement the versions of DBI and DBD
I had in place seem to work fine also!  (It did take me awhile to
locate and install the pg man pages...but I got there.)

I do have a silly question tho:  On RH 6.1 Linux the pg tarballs
that come from Lamar O. are 6.5.2.  And they work fine - in fact
there is a command history function in psql that I like alot being
a bash user - even on FBSD and UnixWare.

Yet, I can't get command hx to work for 7.0.2 psql (on slackware 3.6).
Am I not seeing something obvious here?

TIA,
Tom Good

> Yes, || is marked left-associative in more recent versions.
> 
> regression=# select 'a' || 'b' || 'c';
>  ?column?
> ----------
>  abc
> (1 row)
> 
> 			regards, tom lane


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