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Operators
LightDB provides a large number of
functions and operators for the built-in data types. This chapter
describes most of them, although additional special-purpose functions
appear in relevant sections of the manual. Users can also
define their own functions and operators, as described in
Part V. The
ltsql commands \df
and
\do
can be used to list all
available functions and operators, respectively.
The notation used throughout this chapter to describe the argument and result data types of a function or operator is like this:
repeat
(text
,integer
) →text
which says that the function repeat
takes one text and
one integer argument and returns a result of type text. The right arrow
is also used to indicate the result of an example, thus:
repeat('Pg', 4) → PgPgPgPg
If you are concerned about portability then note that most of the functions and operators described in this chapter, with the exception of the most trivial arithmetic and comparison operators and some explicitly marked functions, are not specified by the SQL standard. Some of this extended functionality is present in other SQL database management systems, and in many cases this functionality is compatible and consistent between the various implementations.