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

On 28/12/15 18:11, Tom Lane wrote:
> "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

Excellent, thank you :)