| From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | phd2(at)earthling(dot)net |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Modulo syntax |
| Date: | 1999-03-17 16:21:41 |
| Message-ID: | 199903171621.LAA10188@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Hello!
>
> I ran the query
> update producers SET cor_id = producer_id % 9 + 1;
>
> and found that result is eqiuvalent to
> update producers SET cor_id = producer_id % 9;
>
> I added parens:
> update producers SET cor_id = (producer_id % 9) + 1;
>
> and got what I needed.
Looks like a bug. We have associativity for +, -, * and /, but not %.
>From gram.y:
%left '+' '-'
%left '*' '/'
I will add '%' to that.
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