From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au>
Cc: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
Subject: Re: Values list-of-targetlists patch for comments (was Re: [PATCHES]
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 19:11:47 +0200
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Should we give VALUES its own reference page? That doesn't quite
> seem helpful either. cc'ing to pgsql-docs for ideas.
This is probably the sort of thing that should be explained part II "The
SQL Language". In particular, section 7.2 is about table expressions,
which this is either a case of or related to.
A few examples on the command references pages to show how it can be
useful are probably OK, but the big picture shoulbd be developed in
chapter 7 or so.
--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
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