On 2024-01-18 Th 09:25, Jeevan Chalke wrote:


On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 1:03 AM Peter Eisentraut <pe...@eisentraut.org> wrote:

    On 17.01.24 10:03, Jeevan Chalke wrote:
    > I added unary '+' and '-' support as well and thus thought of
    having
    > separate rules altogether rather than folding those in.
    >
    >     Per SQL standard, the precision and scale arguments are unsigned
    >     integers, so unary plus and minus signs are not supported. 
    So my patch
    >     removes that support, but I didn't adjust the regression
    tests for that.
    >
    >
    > However, PostgreSQL numeric casting does support a negative
    scale. Here
    > is an example:
    >
    > # select '12345'::numeric(4,-2);
    >   numeric
    > ---------
    >     12300
    > (1 row)
    >
    > And thus thought of supporting those.
    > Do we want this JSON item method to behave differently here?

    Ok, it would make sense to support this in SQL/JSON as well.


OK. So with this, we don't need changes done in your 0001 patches.


    > I will merge them all into one and will try to keep them in the
    order
    > specified in sql_features.txt.
    > However, for documentation, it makes more sense to keep them in
    logical
    > order than the alphabetical one. What are your views on this?

    The documentation can be in a different order.


Thanks, Andrew and Peter for the confirmation.

Attached merged single patch along these lines.


Thanks, I have pushed this.


cheers


andrew


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