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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: dfm@ringing.org
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Better example
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 12:59:41 -0500
Message-ID: <20161123175941.GA8036@momjian.us> (raw)
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On Tue, Nov  8, 2016 at 06:01:58PM +0000, dfm@ringing.org wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
> 
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/datatype-numeric.html
> Description:
> 
> I think that in the section on floating point Infinity/-Infinity/NaN in the
> Data Types chapter the example would be better setting it to -Infinity
> rather than positive, as that would make clear that the minus sign needs to
> be within the quote marks. This isn&#39;t clear otherwise.

Is the attached patch what you are suggesting?

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infinity.diff (text/x-diff, 1016B) download
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
new file mode 100644
index 67d0c34..fbc3576
*** a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
--- b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
*************** FROM generate_series(-3.5, 3.5, 1) as x;
*** 750,756 ****
       floating-point arithmetic does not follow IEEE 754, these values
       will probably not work as expected.)  When writing these values
       as constants in an SQL command, you must put quotes around them,
!      for example <literal>UPDATE table SET x = 'Infinity'</>.  On input,
       these strings are recognized in a case-insensitive manner.
      </para>
  
--- 750,756 ----
       floating-point arithmetic does not follow IEEE 754, these values
       will probably not work as expected.)  When writing these values
       as constants in an SQL command, you must put quotes around them,
!      for example <literal>UPDATE table SET x = '-Infinity'</>.  On input,
       these strings are recognized in a case-insensitive manner.
      </para>
  

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