| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Mike <ipso(at)snappymail(dot)ca> |
| Cc: | Albert Cervera i Areny <albert(at)nan-tic(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Subject: | Re: Alpha 1 release notes |
| Date: | 2009-08-12 00:32:54 |
| Message-ID: | 20090812003254.GO16362@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Mike wrote:
> The thing that caused me the most trouble was that the "," wasn't very
> noticeable sitting near the end of this line:
>
> EXPLAIN [ ( { ANALYZE boolean | VERBOSE boolean | COSTS boolean |
> FORMAT { TEXT | XML | JSON } } [, ...] ) ] statement
>
> It may just be me, but I read that as the comma being optional, not
> mandatory in circumstances where you want to specify more then one
> option.
It is you -- what's optional is having more than one option, but as soon
as you have a second one, the comma is mandatory.
I agree some examples would be useful.
--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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