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Subject: Re: Subscript expressions do not have to evaluate to integers
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 02:59:18AM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
>> I believe a more appropriate statement would acknowledge that at least some
>> values undergo an explicit-style conversion to an integer.

> OK, how is the attached patch?

"and" is not an improvement over "which".  Otherwise seems OK.

(The proposed patch for generic subscripting will probably need to
rewrite this completely, but for now this is an improvement.)

			regards, tom lane