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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: Grzegorz Szpetkowski <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: 7.1. Overview (The SQL Language)
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:36:33 -0400
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Robert Haas <[email protected]> writes:
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Grzegorz Szpetkowski
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Maybe it's worth adding:
>> 
>> "Assuming that there is a table called table1, this command would
>> retrieve all rows and all columns (excluding system columns described
>> at Section 5.4) from table1."

> Since this is a basic SQL tutorial, we don't want to get too far down
> into the weeds, or people will get confused.

I agree.  Mentioning system columns at all in this place seems like
too much information.

			regards, tom lane



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