Re: COALESCE doccumentation

2019-04-30 Thread Daniil Treshchin
"SQL is a strongly typed language"  - nobody argues with that, that's a common fact everybody knows. "so it is well within its right to require that a query be well-formed such that all inputs to functions (which COALESCE is in this context) are of the same type or raise a compile time error" -

Re: COALESCE doccumentation

2019-04-30 Thread Daniil Treshchin
Hi David. "You invented the “higher” concept"- False. Not me. That's Joe Celko p. 227 ISBIN 978-0-12-800761-7. That's the ultimate authority still living on this earth. "There is not a single character varying typed value in any of these examples" - False. You clearly didn't even look at the ex

suggestion: "See also" for create rule and Rules on INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE

2019-04-30 Thread PG Doc comments form
The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/sql-createrule.html Description: Hi, It would be nice for newbies if https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/sql-createrule.html and https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/rules-update.html are