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Operators

GaussDB is compatible with operators except hierarchical query.

SQL Operators

Table 1 SQL operators

No.

Oracle Database

GaussDB

1

Unary and binary operators

Supported.

2

Operator precedence

Supported.

Arithmetic Operators

Table 2 Arithmetic operators

No.

Oracle Database

GaussDB

1

Unary operators: positive (+) and negative (–).

Supported.

2

Binary operators: addition (+) and subtraction (–).

Supported.

3

Binary operators: multiplication (*) and division (/).

Supported.

COLLATE Operator

Table 3 COLLATE operator

No.

Oracle Database

GaussDB

1

COLLATE collation_name

Supported.

Connection Operators

Table 4 Connection operators

No.

Oracle Database

GaussDB

1

||

Supported.

Hierarchical Query Operators

Table 5 Hierarchical query operators

No.

Oracle Database

GaussDB

Difference

1

prior

Supported, with differences.

GaussDB: Only ordinary columns can be called. Functions cannot be called.

2

connect_by_root

Supported, with differences.

GaussDB: When connect_by_root is called, if parentheses are used to modify the operation value, the behavior is the same as that of Oracle Database. If parentheses are not used, this operator can be called only for ordinary columns.

Set Operators

Table 6 Set operators

No.

Oracle Database

GaussDB

1

union

Supported.

2

union all

Supported.

3

intersect

Supported.

4

minus

Supported.

Multiset Operators

Table 7 Multiset operators

No.

Oracle Database

GaussDB

1

multiset except

Supported.

2

multiset intersect

Supported.

3

multiset union

Supported.

User-defined Operators

Table 8 User-defined operators

No.

Oracle Database

GaussDB

Difference

1

CREATE OPERATOR

Supported.
  • Oracle Database provides CONTEXT_CLAUSE to define functional estimator functions, which is different from the restriction selectivity estimator function in GaussDB. GaussDB does not support user-defined functional estimator functions.
  • Optional parameters in GaussDB differ greatly from those in Oracle Database. For details, see the GaussDB parameter description in "SQL Reference > SQL Syntax > C > CREATE OPERATOR" in Developer Guide.

Comparison Operators

No.

Oracle Database

GaussDB

1

< =

Supported.

2

< >

Supported.

3

> =

Supported.

4

^ =

Supported.

5

! =

Not supported. For !=, if there is a space between an exclamation mark (!) and an equal sign (=), the exclamation mark will be identified as factorial.

For comparison operators <=, <>, >=, and ^=, if there is a space between two symbols, it does not affect normal operations. For !=, if there is a space between an exclamation mark (!) and an equal sign (=), the exclamation mark will be identified as factorial, which may cause the result to be inconsistent with the expected result.