Add a note that AND and OR are commutative. Apparently, they are not in

certain other products.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index 59d308913c3554bd2742a078084daf66ff1c12fb..f06f289d2d9fe0f36d1662eccd578cc8e915a977 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
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-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.163 2003/07/31 22:17:11 tgl Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.164 2003/08/04 14:00:13 petere Exp $
 PostgreSQL documentation
 -->
 
@@ -162,6 +162,14 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
      </tgroup>
     </informaltable>
    </para>
+
+   <para>
+    The operators <literal>AND</literal> and <literal>OR</literal> are
+    commutative, that is, you can switch the left and right operand
+    without affecting the result.  But see <xref
+    linkend="syntax-express-eval"> for more information about the
+    order of evaluation of subexpressions.
+   </para>
   </sect1>
 
   <sect1 id="functions-comparison">

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
index 372aca2ca7142e507596dd03def5958d29908667..8d23a3e3548d634b83de5c00f837add19c3ac793 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
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-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml,v 1.79 2003/06/19 23:22:40 tgl Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml,v 1.80 2003/08/04 14:00:14 petere Exp $
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 <chapter id="sql-syntax">
@@ -1216,7 +1216,7 @@ SELECT name, (SELECT max(pop) FROM cities WHERE cities.state = states.name)
    </para>
   </sect2>
 
-  <sect2>
+  <sect2 id="syntax-express-eval">
    <title>Expression Evaluation</title>
 
    <para>