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authorBruce Momjian2020-08-31 17:49:17 +0000
committerBruce Momjian2020-08-31 17:49:17 +0000
commit06eba0fd10b1c19d578b90f6ab792834fe9a7418 (patch)
tree57025a9bb09341190c9d35619aaabbf65846adc9
parent47c427d006267d752fee4655543ec99dabe9e61d (diff)
doc: improve description of subscripting of arrays
It wasn't clear the non-integers are cast to integers for subscripting, rather than throwing an error. Reported-by: [email protected] Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected] Backpatch-through: 9.5
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
index 0ee303cb87..b0ae5d2e12 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
@@ -1359,7 +1359,7 @@ CREATE FUNCTION dept(text) RETURNS dept
</synopsis>
(Here, the brackets <literal>[ ]</literal> are meant to appear literally.)
Each <replaceable>subscript</replaceable> is itself an expression,
- which must yield an integer value.
+ which will be rounded to the nearest integer value.
</para>
<para>