Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 798E7B5F4AE for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:47:45 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 21239-02-9 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:47:39 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFA0AB5F6EC for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:36:34 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p5DFaXqS019014; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:36:33 -0400 (EDT) To: Robert Haas cc: Grzegorz Szpetkowski , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: 7.1. Overview (The SQL Language) In-reply-to: References: Comments: In-reply-to Robert Haas message dated "Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:05:47 -0400" Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:36:33 -0400 Message-ID: <19013.1307979393@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.01 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201106/37 X-Sequence-Number: 6811 Robert Haas writes: > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Grzegorz Szpetkowski > 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