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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-10.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-10.sgml index 441e6c8d8af..013632ed7a8 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-10.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-10.sgml @@ -1929,9 +1929,19 @@ 2017-01-17 [323b96aa3] Register missing money operators in system catalogs --> <para> - Add <link linkend="datatype-money"><type>MONEY</></> operators - for multiplication and division with <type>INT8</> values (Peter - Eisentraut) + Add operators for multiplication and division + of <link linkend="datatype-money"><type>money</></link> values + with <type>int8</> values (Peter Eisentraut) + </para> + + <para> + Previously such cases would result in converting the <type>int8</> + values to <type>float8</> and then using + the <type>money</>-and-<type>float8</> operators. The new behavior + avoids possible precision loss. But note that division + of <type>money</> by <type>int8</> now truncates the quotient, like + other integer-division cases, while the previous behavior would have + rounded. </para> </listitem> @@ -1941,7 +1951,7 @@ 2016-09-14 [656df624c] Add overflow checks to money type input function --> <para> - More strictly check the <type>MONEY</> type for overflow operations + More strictly check the <type>money</> type for overflow operations (Peter Eisentraut) </para> </listitem> |