Michael Glaesemann <grzm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > What's ambigious about it? An operator cannot include a space, so != > (no space) is *always* interpreted as one operator: not equals (<>). Right. There are some corner cases though, for example A*-5 which you'd probably rather weren't interpreted as a single operator "*-". I believe the hack we use for this involves parsing a trailing "+" or "-" as a separate operator if the earlier part of the operator name contains only a certain set of characters. The grotty details are in the manual ... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings