Re: [Fwd: Re: ruleutils with pretty-print option]

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: ruleutils with pretty-print option]
Date: 2003-07-31 13:37:44
Message-ID: 992.1059658664@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)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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