"David E. Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> writes:
> On Feb 2, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> It's worked the way it does now since 7.1, and no one has complained;
>> in fact we've gotten bug reports when it was broken by the int8-limit
>> patch. So there are people depending on the behavior.
> Yeah, it's very useful. Here's a patch for the docs about it.
Seems to me that the SELECT reference page is a more appropriate place
for this type of detail. I've applied a patch there.
regards, tom lane