PG Doc comments form <nore...@postgresql.org> writes: > Proposed rewording for ceil() and ceiling(): "smallest integer..." > Proposed rewording for floor(): "greatest integer..." > Rationale: the proposed rewording is more aligned to their respective > mathematical definitions
Actually, that's very nearly the wording we used to have, and then changed because people found it confusing: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20160606054056.1385.38085%40wrigleys.postgresql.org https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git&a=commitdiff&h=7feb60c1bb0b1e9c97561171e9194d56694620ad As of just a few days ago in HEAD, we have the room for clarifying examples that we lacked then, so I added some: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/functions-math.html#FUNCTIONS-MATH-FUNC-TABLE So maybe the confusion argument has less force than it used to. Still, I'm disinclined to go back. In this particular area, I think Matlab's precedent is at least as strong as Wikipedia's. regards, tom lane
