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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 | 663292eec56ec73e9701ae28c834eb60d7681050 (patch) | |
| tree | 1f319a463e07d195363474fdb9a40f9f3cb4c450 | |
| parent | d9f488dc76dde5ed30a3c02d17dbbbad8f3ed0b6 (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 c91554821f4..bdd6345d73f 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> |