From 23c356ccecaf10665777c05fac414466b7d5793d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:39:23 +0000
Subject: Document and enforce that the usable range of setseed() arguments is
 -1 to 1, not 0 to 1.  The actual behavior for values within this range does
 not change.  Kris Jurka

---
 doc/src/sgml/func.sgml    | 4 ++--
 doc/src/sgml/ref/set.sgml | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

(limited to 'doc/src')

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index 1052ab0d670..ec138a5c2dc 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.423 2008/03/06 18:49:32 momjian Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.424 2008/03/10 12:39:22 tgl Exp $ -->
 
  <chapter id="functions">
   <title>Functions and Operators</title>
@@ -828,7 +828,7 @@
       <row>
        <entry><literal><function>setseed</function>(<type>dp</type>)</literal></entry>
        <entry><type>void</type></entry>
-       <entry>set seed for subsequent <literal>random()</literal> calls (value between 0 and 1.0)</entry>
+       <entry>set seed for subsequent <literal>random()</literal> calls (value between -1.0 and 1.0)</entry>
        <entry><literal>setseed(0.54823)</literal></entry>
        <entry></entry>
       </row>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/set.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/set.sgml
index 26ee8594b44..a31d1540526 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/set.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/set.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/set.sgml,v 1.91 2007/09/11 00:06:41 tgl Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/set.sgml,v 1.92 2008/03/10 12:39:22 tgl Exp $
 PostgreSQL documentation
 -->
 
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ SET [ SESSION | LOCAL ] TIME ZONE { <replaceable class="PARAMETER">timezone</rep
       <para>
        Sets the internal seed for the random number generator (the
        function <function>random</function>).  Allowed values are
-       floating-point numbers between 0 and 1, which are then
+       floating-point numbers between -1 and 1, which are then
        multiplied by 2<superscript>31</>-1.
       </para>
 
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