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commit    f72aad5678b5d9bf570a51a9899b4e950ce9f828
Author:   Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date:     Mon Feb 21 01:20:41 2000 +0000
First released in: 7.0

    Update discussion of aggregate syntax to mention ALL.


 doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
index 08f7955df93..332464429cd 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
@@ -711,6 +711,7 @@ sqrt(emp.salary)
 
     <simplelist>
      <member><replaceable>aggregate_name</replaceable> (<replaceable>expression</replaceable>)</member>
+     <member><replaceable>aggregate_name</replaceable> (ALL <replaceable>expression</replaceable>)</member>
      <member><replaceable>aggregate_name</replaceable> (DISTINCT <replaceable>expression</replaceable>)</member>
      <member><replaceable>aggregate_name</replaceable> ( * )</member>
     </simplelist>
@@ -723,7 +724,8 @@ sqrt(emp.salary)
     <para>
      The first form of aggregate expression invokes the aggregate across all
      input rows for which the given expression yields a non-null value.
-     The second form invokes the aggregate for all distinct non-null values
+     The second form is the same as the first, since ALL is the default.
+     The third form invokes the aggregate for all distinct non-null values
      of the expression found in the input rows.  The last form invokes the
      aggregate once for each input row regardless of null or non-null values;
      since no particular input value is specified, it is generally only useful


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