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||(text,anynonarray)

concatenate

Reading PostgreSQL 18.6.

Description

concatenate

Left operand: text
Right operand: anynonarray
Result type: text
Implementing function: textanycat(text,anynonarray)
Operator kind: Binary
Hash join candidate: no
Merge join candidate: no

Usage

||(text,anynonarray) → text

English manual definition

Converts the non-string input to text, then concatenates the two strings. (The non-string input cannot be of an array type, because that would create ambiguity with the array || operators. If you want to concatenate an array's text equivalent, cast it to text explicitly.)

'Value: ' || 42 → Value: 42

Catalog interpretation

The catalog pg_operator stores information about operators. See CREATE OPERATOR and Section 36.14 for more information.

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Documentation and source

Source build

Version: 18.6
Build: https://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v18.6/postgresql-18.6.tar.bz2
Source fingerprint: 555610c24d53e4316da5b7d3fc25c279d96856d5e0e23ee308c328c5fa881d9f

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PostgreSQL 17 → 18: unchanged.

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