Re: 4.1.4. Special Characters

On Tue, Nov 3, 2026 at 4:37 AM Arvind Kandpal
<arvind(dot)kandpal(at)ksolves(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > I think if you want to go in that direction, you should refactor saying
> > something like "* is the shorthand for all the user-defined columns (see
> > system columns)". What do you think?
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. Changing the existing sentence is cleaner
> than adding a new one.
>
> The attached v3 changes the first sentence of that paragraph on the
> SELECT reference page to say that * is a shorthand for all the columns
> of the selected rows, not including system columns, with a link to the
> System Columns section. I used "not including system columns" instead
> of "user-defined columns", since the docs don't use that term for this.
> I also dropped the example to keep the change small.

Hey Arvind, it LGTM with a small change: "* is a shorthand for all the
columns of the selected rows (not including <xref
linkend="ddl-system-columns" endterm="system columns"/>)." What do you
think?