Re: BUG #13829: Exponentiation operator is left-associative

"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Henrik Pauli <henrik.pauli@uhusystems.com>
> wrote:
>> On 22/12/15 17:00, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> However, pointing the issue out somewhere near Table 9-2. Mathematical
>>> Operators seems reasonable.  The minimum change would just be to call it
>>> out in the table entry itself:

>> Might well be enough, not sure.  Some parts of the documentation do come
>> with little "Note" boxes in the text (can't quite remember an exact
>> example, but I seem to remember there being such), which increase
>> visibility to such discrepancy more effectively.  Might be worth a sentence
>> or two.  I guess if there hasn't been a report before (no idea), people
>> just don't do this in Postgres and so haven't been bitten by it at all

> ​Pointing any of this out in a big highlighted comment block seems like
> overkill.​

Yeah, given the lack of other complaints, I think a parenthetical comment
in the table entry is sufficient.  Done that way.

            regards, tom lane