[torikoshia <torikoshia@oss.nttdata.com>]

Hi,

RETURNING is usually tagged with appropriate tags, such as <LITERAL>, 
but not in the 'query' section of COPY.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/sql-copy.html

Would it be better to put <LITERAL> here as well?

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Regards,

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Atsushi Torikoshi
NTT DATA Group Corporation

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  [text/x-diff] v1-0001-Added-literal-tag-for-RETURNING.patch (1.3K, ../c0aa00b60a16c0ea2a4c5123b013acb9@oss.nttdata.com/2-v1-0001-Added-literal-tag-for-RETURNING.patch)
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From 3c9efe404310bf01d79b2f0f006541ebc0b170a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Atsushi Torikoshi <torikoshia@oss.nttdata.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:33:47 +0900
Subject: [PATCH v1] Added literal tag for RETURNING.

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 doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml
index 18ecc69c33..e2ffbbdf84 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml
@@ -128,10 +128,10 @@ COPY { <replaceable class="parameter">table_name</replaceable> [ ( <replaceable
      </para>
      <para>
       For <command>INSERT</command>, <command>UPDATE</command> and
-      <command>DELETE</command> queries a RETURNING clause must be provided,
-      and the target relation must not have a conditional rule, nor
-      an <literal>ALSO</literal> rule, nor an <literal>INSTEAD</literal> rule
-      that expands to multiple statements.
+      <command>DELETE</command> queries a <literal>RETURNING</literal> clause
+      must be provided, and the target relation must not have a conditional
+      rule, nor an <literal>ALSO</literal> rule, nor an
+      <literal>INSTEAD</literal> rule that expands to multiple statements.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

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