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commit    58eb1760baa67a36e71b26f9ed2ddc86a1cac03d
Author:   Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date:     Mon Aug 31 17:49:17 2020 +0000
First released in: 14.0, 9.5.24, 9.6.20, 10.15, 11.10, 12.5, 13.0

    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: sean@materialize.io
    
    Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/159538675800.624.7728794628229799531@wrigleys.postgresql.org
    
    Backpatch-through: 9.5


 doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
index b7fae363fb3..e16721107d7 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
@@ -1383,7 +1383,7 @@ 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>


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