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Re: [Fwd: Re: ruleutils with pretty-print option]: msg#00257

Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: ruleutils with pretty-print option]
Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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