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Code and docs review for numeric-factorial patch.

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Tom Lane
2003-12-02 00:26:59 +00:00
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doc/src/sgml/ref/drop_operator.sgml
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<!--
$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/drop_operator.sgml,v 1.23 2003/11/29 19:51:38 pgsql Exp $
$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/drop_operator.sgml,v 1.24 2003/12/02 00:26:59 tgl Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
@ -108,9 +108,9 @@ DROP OPERATOR ~ (none, bit);
<para>
Remove the right unary factorial operator <literal>x!</literal>
for type <type>integer</type>:
for type <type>bigint</type>:
<programlisting>
DROP OPERATOR ! (integer, none);
DROP OPERATOR ! (bigint, none);
</programlisting>
</para>
</refsect1>

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doc/src/sgml/typeconv.sgml
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<!--
$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/typeconv.sgml,v 1.40 2003/12/01 21:53:15 momjian Exp $
$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/typeconv.sgml,v 1.41 2003/12/02 00:26:59 tgl Exp $
-->
<chapter Id="typeconv">
@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ type to resolve the unknown literals to.
</example>
<example>
<title>Absolute-Value and Factorial Operator Type Resolution</title>
<title>Absolute-Value and Negation Operator Type Resolution</title>
<para>
The <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> operator catalog has several
@ -437,6 +437,30 @@ SELECT @ '-4.5e500' AS "abs";
ERROR: "-4.5e500" is out of range for type double precision
</screen>
</para>
<para>
On the other hand, the prefix operator <literal>~</> (bitwise negation)
is defined only for integer data types, not for <type>float8</type>. So, if we
try a similar case with <literal>~</>, we get:
<screen>
SELECT ~ '20' AS "negation";
ERROR: operator is not unique: ~ "unknown"
HINT: Could not choose a best candidate operator. You may need to add explicit
type casts.
</screen>
This happens because the system can't decide which of the several
possible <literal>~</> operators should be preferred. We can help
it out with an explicit cast:
<screen>
SELECT ~ CAST('20' AS int8) AS "negation";
negation
----------
-21
(1 row)
</screen>
</para>
</example>
</sect1>