From 508a26e2468fc4bb35f4b002552c304d51d97890 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 12:09:00 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Document the exponentiation operator as associating left to
 right.

Common mathematical convention is that exponentiation associates right to
left.  We aren't going to change the parser for this, but we could note
it in the operator's description.  (It's already noted in the operator
precedence/associativity table, but users might not look there.)
Per bug #13829 from Henrik Pauli.
---
 doc/src/sgml/func.sgml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index 81c1d3fa929..6b3e5adfc76 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -505,7 +505,7 @@
 
       <row>
        <entry> <literal>^</literal> </entry>
-       <entry>exponentiation</entry>
+       <entry>exponentiation (associates left to right)</entry>
        <entry><literal>2.0 ^ 3.0</literal></entry>
        <entry><literal>8</literal></entry>
       </row>
-- 
2.47.2