From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
Cc: He Weiping (Laser Henry) <laser@zhengmai.com.cn>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: typo found.
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 13:26:40 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <200012111826.NAA13979@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7784.976556725@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Changed to Negator.
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > The way it is now (before your patch/after backout) is correct.
>
> Agreed. The entry in question is for oprrsortop, which certainly
> applies to the right-hand type not the left-hand.
>
> I do have a gripe with the entry just above that for "oprnegate":
> it defines the oprnegate field as linking to the "inverse" operator.
> This is not correct for the generally understood meaning of inverse.
> I'd say just write "Negator of this operator, if any". If anyone isn't
> sure about that, they can read about it in xoper.html ... but "inverse"
> is likely to leave people believing the wrong thing.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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