X-Original-To: pgsql-docs-postgresql.org@postgresql.org Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E8539FB213 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:11:55 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 51269-02 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:11:54 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.21]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B78C9FAE4E for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:11:53 -0300 (ADT) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 03 Aug 2006 17:11:52 -0000 Received: from dslb-084-063-123-208.pools.arcor-ip.net (EHLO colt.pezone.net) [84.63.123.208] by mail.gmx.net (mp010) with SMTP; 03 Aug 2006 19:11:52 +0200 X-Authenticated: #495269 From: Peter Eisentraut To: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Values list-of-targetlists patch for comments (was Re: [PATCHES] Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 19:11:47 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Tom Lane , Gavin Sherry , Joe Conway References: <44B69778.5050104@dunslane.net> <18685.1154617090@sss.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <18685.1154617090@sss.pgh.pa.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608031911.48010.peter_e@gmx.net> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200608/5 X-Sequence-Number: 3623 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/