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| author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2020-08-31 13:49:17 -0400 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2020-08-31 13:49:17 -0400 |
| commit | 58eb1760baa67a36e71b26f9ed2ddc86a1cac03d (patch) | |
| tree | c350f5e7dc4e087360f989b0c05a9903660c794a | |
| parent | a76d83a00a9151dda2d1258100421ba493d6229a (diff) | |
doc: improve description of subscripting of arrays
It wasn't clear the non-integers are cast to integers for subscripting,
rather than throwing an error.
Reported-by: sean@materialize.io
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/159538675800.624.7728794628229799531@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 9.5
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml index b7fae363fb3..e16721107d7 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml @@ -1383,7 +1383,7 @@ CREATE FUNCTION dept(text) RETURNS dept </synopsis> (Here, the brackets <literal>[ ]</literal> are meant to appear literally.) Each <replaceable>subscript</replaceable> is itself an expression, - which must yield an integer value. + which will be rounded to the nearest integer value. </para> <para> |