> > Are you saying we should remove the whole chapter below from the docs?
>
> Hmm. I wrote that :/
>
> I vaguely recall some discussion of this topic (a few months ago?). I'm
> not certain that the current behavior was an intended result of changes
> in the "automatic coersion" algorithms, but I think it was. Tom Lane is
> probably the person who made those changes, and we should have him in
> the discussion on whether the current behavior is appropriate.
>
> Keep in mind that he is a mathematician, and I'll guess that he won't
> have much patience with folks who expect a result for a factorial of a
> fractional number ;) But there may have been another case which made it
> clearer that the old behavior was a bad road to take. We can look at the
> archives, right?
Ok, let's wait for him coming back...
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Tatsuo Ishii
