From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 22:44:29 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: doc:  remove mention of bitwise operators as solely type-limited
X-Git-Tag: REL9_6_18~42
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e58d283ba9332e33c24f765f28dd7a312012bd12;p=thirdparty%2Fpostgresql.git

doc:  remove mention of bitwise operators as solely type-limited

There are other operators that have limited number data type support, so
just remove the sentence.

Reported-by: Sergei Agalakov

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/158032651854.19851.16261832706661813796@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.5
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index 43f0bf39f49..5aafef6a00b 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -732,9 +732,8 @@
    </table>
 
    <para>
-    The bitwise operators work only on integral data types, whereas
-    the others are available for all numeric data types.  The bitwise
-    operators are also available for the bit
+    The bitwise operators work only on integral data types, and are also
+    available for the bit
     string types <type>bit</type> and <type>bit varying</type>, as
     shown in <xref linkend="functions-bit-string-op-table">.
    </para>