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

"David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Henrik Pauli <henrik(dot)pauli(at)uhusystems(dot)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