Doc: clarify data type behavior of COALESCE and NULLIF.

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: ca0c8ea6662e2bc7c730dca8eb33a0d5bc2b1e0b
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2020-11-09T17:02:24Z
Releases: 10.15
Doc: clarify data type behavior of COALESCE and NULLIF.

After studying the code, NULLIF is a lot more subtle than you might
have guessed.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/160486028730.25500.15740897403028593550@wrigleys.postgresql.org

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