> > > It looks to me like '^' and '|' have been left out of the alternatives
> > > for MathOp in src/backend/parser/gram.y. It could be they were
> > > deliberately omitted, but I bet it's just an oversight.
> > OK, here is a patch to allow both ^ and | as operators, both in operator
> > definitions and expressions. It seems to work for me. Unfortunately the
> > regression tests do not tell me an awful lot, as several of them fail on
> > the Alpha anyway. As I don;t really know what I'm doing, I'd appreciate
> > it if somebody else could check the patch out and let me know whether it
> > is ok.
>
> It's fine as far as it goes, but istm that there are other cases
> missing from gram.y also :(
>
> Bruce, how did this stuff get into the stable release? Looks like we
> are going to need a v6.5.3 Real Soon Now. And packagers, we should
> plan on having a patch for v6.5.2. I'll try coming up with one in the
> next couple of days; I've tested on my own gram.y but it has too many
> other changes to be used as-is.
I have no idea how this got in. Looking at the cvs logs, I don't see
anything since 6.5 that would cause this to break in 6.5.2. Even
looking at an actual diff against 6.5.1, I don't see anything.
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