From fe63616cd98e4d2e5d8df77391793a8fe7504626 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Barwick Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:58:14 +0900 Subject: [PATCH v1] doc: clarify VALUES usage in FROM clause (Pg14/Pg15) "AS" is optional from PostgreSQL 14, so reword the description to use "table alias" instead. --- doc/src/sgml/ref/values.sgml | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/values.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/values.sgml index 4bf7bfdffee..8b42524c7dc 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/values.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/values.sgml @@ -198,10 +198,10 @@ UPDATE employees SET salary = salary * v.increase WHERE employees.depno = v.depno AND employees.sales >= v.target; - Note that an AS clause is required when VALUES - is used in a FROM clause, just as is true for - SELECT. It is not required that the AS clause - specify names for all the columns, but it's good practice to do so. + Note that a table alias is required when VALUES is used in + a FROM clause, just as is true for SELECT. + It is not required that the table alias specify names for all the columns, but it's + good practice to do so. (The default column names for VALUES are column1, column2, etc. in PostgreSQL, but these names might be different in other database systems.) -- 2.43.0