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To: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>
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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: Inheritance docs error. 
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Comments: In-reply-to Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>
	message dated "Wed, 03 Jan 2001 11:30:51 +0200"
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 11:40:43 -0500
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> >          <table contents source> ::=
> >                 <table element list>
> >               | OF <user-defined type>
> >                   [ <subtable clause> ]
> >                   [ <table element list> ]
> 
> to me it seems that only this is OR-d : <table element list> | OF
> <user-defined type>
> and the rest ([ <subtable clause> ],[ <table element list> ])is just
> optional

The grammar is less than perfectly clear, isn't it?  But that reading
just doesn't make any sense, because it would allow <table contents
source> to be (among other things) <table element list> <table element list>
which I am sure is not what they intend.  The last line has to be part
of the second alternative, it seems to me, and therefore the
next-to-last line is too.

			regards, tom lane