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commit    80ada4c0dbc877d494f7c8886fdaebda0fbbe0bc
Author:   Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Date:     Thu Oct 14 17:07:13 2010 +0000
First released in: 9.1.0

    Document (compositeval).* field selection syntax


 doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
index 008706e26aa..e8e0da96b95 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
@@ -1448,6 +1448,15 @@ $1.somecolumn
     or that <structname>mytable</> is a table name not a schema name
     in the second case.
    </para>
+
+   <para>
+    In a select list (see <xref linkend="queries-select-lists">), you
+    can ask for all fields of a composite value by
+    writing <literal>.*</literal>:
+<programlisting>
+(compositecol).*
+</programlisting>
+   </para>
   </sect2>
 
   <sect2>


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