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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
Cc: Euler Taveira <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Synopsis of SELECT statement: UNION, INTERSECTION, EXCEPT
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 09:24:39 -0400
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On Mon, Apr  2, 2018 at 08:21:45PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes:
> > Based on this discussion, I have developed the attached patch which
> > tries to clarify the behavior without adding complexity.
> 
> I don't think this is an improvement, really ... in particular, it
> makes the <synopsis> not self-contained, which is pretty horrible
> for psql's help.

Well, we know we are limited in how much precision we can add without
losing clarity.  I don't have any new ideas so we will just have to keep
what we have, though I do think mine was an improvement in enough areas
to warrant it.

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