Re: [Fwd: Re: ruleutils with pretty-print option] - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [Fwd: Re: ruleutils with pretty-print option]
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Msg-id 992.1059658664@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to [Fwd: Re: ruleutils with pretty-print option]  (Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>)
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Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de> writes:
> Now the patch is *really* appended :-)

And rejected.  You cannot assume that an operator is commutative or
associative just because it has a name you think ought to be.
(For a counter-example, it's well known that floating-point addition
is not associative.)

More: if the tree structure for ops of equal precedence looks like
a + (b + c), then it's a near certainty that the user wrote those
parentheses.  Why would you think that removing them is pretty-printing?

            regards, tom lane

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