| From: | Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, jochen(dot)bandhauer(at)gmx(dot)net, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: 7.2.1. The FROM Clause |
| Date: | 2026-06-15 20:35:37 |
| Message-ID: | ajBiGZ-xz2qCK8hu@msg.df7cb.de |
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Re: Tom Lane
> I think we've discussed that before, and concluded that removing the
> docs would be a disservice to users who are trying to read old code
> that does this and don't know what it means. Maybe that argument
> is too weak now to justify keeping the docs, but I'm unsure.
Fwiw, I saw that syntax somewhere some days back and then went looking
what it meant. I did find it in psql's "\h select" and in turn the
full SELECT documentation. I guess if the docs had not mentioned it, I
would have had to read the grammar, and looking for a non-string in
there sounds painful.
So it should definitely be kept. Thanks. :)
Christoph
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