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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2011-05-09 21:04:22 -0400
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2011-05-09 21:04:22 -0400
commitf71b5c77fa0015492a26838eb489293effee1723 (patch)
tree7542889904f0028516aeab1ed0e4119363ad87ea
parent65a7cd0e9ced21ec7ad67c11cd9a263640fe22e9 (diff)
Update documentation to state there is three-value logic, not
three-value boolean logic. Backpatch to 9.0.X since we just got another bug report about this today.
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/func.sgml5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index 4852231141e..83adc33333b 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -82,8 +82,9 @@
<member><literal>NOT</></member>
</simplelist>
- <acronym>SQL</acronym> uses a three-valued Boolean logic where the null value represents
- <quote>unknown</quote>. Observe the following truth tables:
+ <acronym>SQL</acronym> uses a three-valued logic system with true,
+ false, and <literal>null</>, which represents <quote>unknown</quote>.
+ Observe the following truth tables:
<informaltable>
<tgroup cols="4">