From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
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Subject: Re: 'value' has special behaviour in alter system
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> I have developed the attached patch to document this.

This seems a little imprecise:

+      Values with non-alphanumeric characters must be quoted.

I think accurate is more like "Values that are neither a number
nor a valid identifier must be quoted."

Also, that para already mentions that the input can be a
comma-separated list when appropriate, so your add-on para seems
partially repetitive.  I think you could just drop the first
sentence of it.

			regards, tom lane