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From: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
To: Grzegorz Szpetkowski <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: 7.1. Overview (The SQL Language)
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:05:47 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Grzegorz Szpetkowski
<[email protected]> 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."

Since this is a basic SQL tutorial, we don't want to get too far down
into the weeds, or people will get confused.  The next sentence would
need some thought, too:

 The select list specification <literal>*</literal> means all columns
that the table expression happens to provide.

Possibly we could add a footnote?

-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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