ADQL v0.7.3

Clive Page cgp at star.le.ac.uk
Thu Mar 4 01:35:52 PST 2004


On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Francois Ochsenbein wrote:

> It looks like a bug! Even postgres specifications (e.g. at
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/static/sql-syntax.html)
> explicitely states the left-to-diright associativity of
> the arithmetic operators in SQL statements
> (table 1-1 near the bottom). Therefore interpreting
> a/b/c as a/(b/c) violates the definitions !

Maybe I did Postgres an injustice - I just checked and the current
version evaluates this correctly, so no need for a bug report.


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