On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 08:56:31PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Jeremy Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I want to ask, should I break with following substring's > > precedent, and put the pattern first (as most people probably > > would expect), or should I break with perl's precedent and put the > > pattern second (to behave like substring)? > > All of SQL's pattern match operators have the pattern on the right, > so my advice is to stick with that and try not to think about Perl > ;-)
Perl provides inspiration, but here, consistency would help more than orderly imitation of how it does what it does. And besides, when people really need Perl, they can pull it in as a PL :) Cheers, D -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Skype: davidfetter Remember to vote! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
