Add a note that AND and OR are commutative. Apparently, they are not in

certain other products.
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Peter Eisentraut 2003-08-04 14:00:14 +00:00
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</tgroup>
</informaltable>
</para>
<para>
The operators <literal>AND</literal> and <literal>OR</literal> are
commutative, that is, you can switch the left and right operand
without affecting the result. But see <xref
linkend="syntax-express-eval"> for more information about the
order of evaluation of subexpressions.
</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="functions-comparison">

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<chapter id="sql-syntax">
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</sect2>
<sect2>
<sect2 id="syntax-express-eval">
<title>Expression Evaluation</title>
<para>