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-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/func.sgml10
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml4
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index 59d308913c3..f06f289d2d9 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.163 2003/07/31 22:17:11 tgl Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.164 2003/08/04 14:00:13 petere Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
@@ -162,6 +162,14 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
</tgroup>
</informaltable>
</para>
+
+ <para>
+ The operators <literal>AND</literal> and <literal>OR</literal> are
+ commutative, that is, you can switch the left and right operand
+ without affecting the result. But see <xref
+ linkend="syntax-express-eval"> for more information about the
+ order of evaluation of subexpressions.
+ </para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="functions-comparison">
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
index 372aca2ca71..8d23a3e3548 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml,v 1.79 2003/06/19 23:22:40 tgl Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml,v 1.80 2003/08/04 14:00:14 petere Exp $
-->
<chapter id="sql-syntax">
@@ -1216,7 +1216,7 @@ SELECT name, (SELECT max(pop) FROM cities WHERE cities.state = states.name)
</para>
</sect2>
- <sect2>
+ <sect2 id="syntax-express-eval">
<title>Expression Evaluation</title>
<para>