Re: [PgFoundry] Unsigned Data Types [1 of 2]

Tom Lane <[email protected]> Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:55:30 -0400

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"Jaime Casanova" <[email protected]> writes:
> then the patch is right but it seems to me like that is broking the
> law of less surprise i expected -2::uint1 to be equivalent to
> (-2)::uint1 that should be at least documented, no?

See the precedence table here:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/sql-syntax-lexical.html#SQL-PRECEDENCE

:: binds more tightly than -, and always has.

			regards, tom lane

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