you're 100% right. Got it now. The documentation is correct and does not need to be changed. chrs. ________________________________ From: Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> Sent: Friday, 7 October 2022 7:49 PM To: benko...@hotmail.com <benko...@hotmail.com>; pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org <pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org> Subject: Re: Comparison Predicates - example - documentation seems contradictory?
On 2022-Oct-06, PG Doc comments form wrote: > See the heading: "Table 9.2. Comparison Predicates" > > "2 BETWEEN 3 AND 1 → f" # ok this is false. > > But let's read the example immediately below (the 'not between' example) > > 2 NOT BETWEEN 1 AND 3 → f # what? This is also false. how can the negation > also be the same value? I would expect it to be true? Actually, 2 *is* between 1 and 3. So if you ask if it's NOT between, that's false. The other one is false because the boundaries are reversed, and BETWEEN does not put them in the proper order before comparing. BETWEEN SYMMETRIC does that, as explained in the line below. -- Álvaro Herrera 48°01'N 7°57'E — https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.enterprisedb.com%2F&data=05%7C01%7C%7Ced05496dced34d16154408daa84d6526%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638007347613366454%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=f5aDRnJa9jZX%2BmfPUAxgsBXSJASWt52JWjWb5WS0DCY%3D&reserved=0
