[colonwqbang]

I'm just quoting the manual here. I have no idea which style is really prevalent in the wild, now or X years ago.

My goal was only to cast doubt on the idea that WHERE clauses in general can't use indices.

Sure, let's debate what the nicest style is. But let's not claim that our preferred style somehow makes the DB go faster (without some kind of proof).

[mtone]

Indeed, they will perform the same or very close (the query plan might differ a bit due to the different orderings). Not sure where the author got that from. I'm complaining about the docs only.