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From: patrick s. <[email protected]>
To: Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
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Subject: Re: [webmaster] Documentation Error: Ceiling, Floor
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 16:52:36 +0200
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Thanks, Jonathan

Didn't see whom to contact on the PG-Pages, but wanted to help.

Cheers, P



On 03.05.2016 16:38, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
>
>> On May 3, 2016, at 5:00 AM, patrick s. <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Dear PostgreSQL developers and webmasters
>>
>> It appears that the documentation of the mathematical functions "ceiling" and "floor" are wrong (inverted).
>>
>> result is correct and as one would expect::
>> select ceiling(43.8); =>44
>> select floor(43.8);  =>43
>>
>> documentation is misleading:
>> select ceiling(43.8); =>43
>> select floor(43.8); =>44
>>
>> found in:
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/functions-math.html
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/functions-math.html
> This should be sent to pgsql-docs (which I have CC’d)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jonathan
>



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