^(float8,float8)
exponentiation
Reading PostgreSQL 18.6.
Description
exponentiation
- Left operand
- float8
- Right operand
- float8
- Result type
- float8
- Implementing function
- dpow(float8,float8)
- Operator kind
- Binary
- Hash join candidate
- no
- Merge join candidate
- no
Usage
^(float8,float8) → float8English manual definition
Exponentiation
2 ^ 3 → 8
Unlike typical mathematical practice, multiple uses of ^ will associate left to right by default:
2 ^ 3 ^ 3 → 512
2 ^ (3 ^ 3) → 134217728
Catalog interpretation
The catalog pg_operator stores information about operators. See CREATE OPERATOR and Section 36.14 for more information.
Related entries
Documentation and source
- Matching PostgreSQL source archive
- PostgreSQL 18 English manual: catalog-pg-operator.html
- PostgreSQL 18 English manual: catalog-pg-amop.html
- PostgreSQL 18 English manual: functions-math.html
Source build
- Version
- 18.6
- Build
- https://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v18.6/postgresql-18.6.tar.bz2
- Source fingerprint
555610c24d53e4316da5b7d3fc25c279d96856d5e0e23ee308c328c5fa881d9f
Compare versions
PostgreSQL 17 → 18: unchanged.
Compares recorded interfaces and attributes. Source fingerprints and build metadata are excluded; an absent sample is not proof of the introduction or removal release.
Related entries
Export JSON · Back to Operators · Recorded in PostgreSQL 10 through 20; the first sample is not necessarily its introduction.