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Hi,

The || operator with arguments (character,character) works fine and even ||
operator(character,varchar) also works fine.
but || operator is not working as expected with arguments character data
type and any other data type like integer,smallint,date,text.
Example:
postgres=# select 'ab'::char(10) || 4::int;
 ?column? 
----------
 ab4
(1 row)
postgres=# select 'ab'::char(10) || 'a'::text;
  ?column?   
-------------
 aba
(1 row)

so I have created || operator with argument character and anyelement.
Example:
create or replace function concat_character(character, anyelement) returns
text as $$ select concat($1,$2)$$ language sql; 
create operator || (procedure = concat_character, leftarg = character,
rightarg = anyelement);
it works fine with argument of type int,smallint,bigint,date etc.
but its not working with text and varchar data type.
Example:
postgres=# select 'ab'::char(10) || 4::int;
  ?column?   
-------------
 ab        4
(1 row)

postgres=# select 'ab'::char(10) || 'b'::text;
 ?column? 
----------
 abb
(1 row)

postgres=# select 'ab'::char(10) || 'b'::varchar(5);
ERROR:  operator is not unique: character || character varying
LINE 1: select 'ab'::char(10) || 'b'::varchar(5);
                              ^
HINT:  Could not choose a best candidate operator. You might need to add
explicit type casts.
Thought?



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Regards,
Vinayak,

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