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| author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2021-07-21 18:03:33 -0400 |
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| committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2021-07-21 18:04:15 -0400 |
| commit | 7fa1e1ef741964eeb50f33d7c72622658bb7e5f4 (patch) | |
| tree | 3c7240c7951905506c3b81e9208d5d982d27e45b | |
| parent | aaec237b1a2f368ed2a8794c4f48b3656750eabc (diff) | |
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Doc: improve documentation about exponentiation operator.
Now that we're not having to wedge this into the straitjacket of
the old operator table format, we can add another example to
clarify the point about left-to-right associativity.
Per suggestion from mdione at grulic.org.ar.
https://postgr.es/m/162661954599.693.13700316547731859171@wrigleys.postgresql.org
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/func.sgml | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml index e833be8f96b..f62c33e5c71 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml @@ -988,16 +988,23 @@ repeat('Pg', 4) <returnvalue>PgPgPgPg</returnvalue> <returnvalue>double precision</returnvalue> </para> <para> - Exponentiation (unlike typical mathematical practice, multiple uses of - <literal>^</literal> will associate left to right) + Exponentiation </para> <para> <literal>2 ^ 3</literal> <returnvalue>8</returnvalue> </para> <para> + Unlike typical mathematical practice, multiple uses of + <literal>^</literal> will associate left to right by default: + </para> + <para> <literal>2 ^ 3 ^ 3</literal> <returnvalue>512</returnvalue> + </para> + <para> + <literal>2 ^ (3 ^ 3)</literal> + <returnvalue>134217728</returnvalue> </para></entry> </row> |