Doc: improve description of allowed spellings for Boolean input.
authorTom Lane <[email protected]>
Thu, 13 Jun 2019 02:54:46 +0000 (22:54 -0400)
committerTom Lane <[email protected]>
Thu, 13 Jun 2019 02:54:46 +0000 (22:54 -0400)
commitdf88137a398b5a45a95bca14c334b6b708c8018e
treeb603b5788bb79edf0210f5c1a020ee6e9401147b
parent8ace51a6b114208f079407d8e9d7020160c5cc2a
Doc: improve description of allowed spellings for Boolean input.

datatype.sgml failed to explain that boolin() accepts any unique
prefix of the basic input strings.  Indeed it was actively misleading
because it called out a few minimal prefixes without mentioning that
there were more valid inputs.

I also felt that it wasn't doing anybody any favors by conflating
SQL key words, valid Boolean input, and string literals containing
valid Boolean input.  Rewrite in hopes of reducing the confusion.

Per bug #15836 from Yuming Wang, as diagnosed by David Johnston.
Back-patch to supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15836-656fab055735f511@postgresql.org
doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml