I wrote: > This approach does have a couple of shortcomings: > * You still have to invent an operator name, even if you never > plan to use it in queries. This is just cosmetic though. > It's not going to matter if the operator name is long or looks like > line noise, if you only need to use it a few times in setup DDL.
Oh, one other thought is that we could address that complaint by allowing OPERATOR(identifier), so that your DDL could use a meaningful name for the operator. I see that we don't actually support OPERATOR() right now in CREATE OPERATOR or ALTER OPERATOR: regression=# create operator operator(+) (function = foo); ERROR: syntax error at or near "(" LINE 1: create operator operator(+) (function = foo); ^ but I doubt that'd be hard to fix. regards, tom lane