BUG #6016: Documentation makes inappropriate reference to boolean logic

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Subject: BUG #6016: Documentation makes inappropriate reference to boolean logic
Date: 2011-05-09 13:03:05
Message-ID: 201105091303.p49D35t8004025@wwwmaster.postgresql.org
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The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference: 6016
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Email address: asuffield(at)acunu(dot)com
PostgreSQL version: 9 (all)
Operating system: documentation
Description: Documentation makes inappropriate reference to boolean
logic
Details:

Documentation section 9.1 reads:

"SQL uses a three-valued Boolean logic..."

A "Boolean logic" is a specific thing, and all Boolean logics have 2^k
values; a 3-valued logic is not Boolean. Should read:

"The SQL Boolean type uses a three-valued logic..."

(Curiously, SQL99 appears to be an actual 4-valued Boolean logic)

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