Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A09FEB5DC25 for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:32:21 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 58293-05 for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:32:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from momjian.us (momjian.us [70.90.9.53]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC096B5DBFC for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:32:14 -0300 (ADT) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by momjian.us (8.11.6/8.11.6) id p8ADWE600232; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 09:32:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <201109101332.p8ADWE600232@momjian.us> Subject: Re: 7.1. Overview (The SQL Language) In-Reply-To: To: Grzegorz Szpetkowski Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 09:32:14 -0400 (EDT) CC: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL124 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.404 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.504 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201109/38 X-Sequence-Number: 6959 Grzegorz Szpetkowski wrote: > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/queries-overview.html > > "Assuming that there is a table called table1, this command would > retrieve all rows and all columns from table1." > > 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." I considered this but it seems like too much detail for the overview section. -- Bruce Momjian http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. +