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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Tatsuo Ishii <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: subquery and sub-SELECT
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2024 22:22:12 -0400
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Tatsuo Ishii <[email protected]> writes:
> In our documentations, "subquery", "sub-query", "sub-select" and
> "sub-SELECT" are used. In English, are they interchangeable?

Pretty nearly.  I think "sub-query" can include DML such as
INSERT RETURNING, whereas "sub-select" should only be a SELECT.
(I'm not claiming that we've been perfectly accurate about
that distinction.)  The dashes definitely don't matter.

			regards, tom lane

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