Re: 7.1. Overview (The SQL Language)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Grzegorz Szpetkowski <gszpetkowski(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 7.1. Overview (The SQL Language)
Date: 2011-06-13 15:36:33
Message-ID: 19013.1307979393@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Grzegorz Szpetkowski
> <gszpetkowski(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Maybe it's worth adding:
>>
>> "Assuming that there is a table called table1, this command would
>> retrieve all rows and all columns (excluding system columns described
>> at Section 5.4) from table1."

> Since this is a basic SQL tutorial, we don't want to get too far down
> into the weeds, or people will get confused.

I agree. Mentioning system columns at all in this place seems like
too much information.

regards, tom lane

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