Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:35:37 +0200
From: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>, jochen.bandhauer@gmx.net,
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Subject: Re: 7.2.1. The FROM Clause
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Re: Tom Lane
> I think we've discussed that before, and concluded that removing the
> docs would be a disservice to users who are trying to read old code
> that does this and don't know what it means.  Maybe that argument
> is too weak now to justify keeping the docs, but I'm unsure.

Fwiw, I saw that syntax somewhere some days back and then went looking
what it meant. I did find it in psql's "\h select" and in turn the
full SELECT documentation. I guess if the docs had not mentioned it, I
would have had to read the grammar, and looking for a non-string in
there sounds painful.

So it should definitely be kept. Thanks. :)

Christoph