| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, Euler Taveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com(dot)br>, dirk(dot)lattermann(at)leanix(dot)net, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Synopsis of SELECT statement: UNION, INTERSECTION, EXCEPT |
| Date: | 2018-04-03 13:24:39 |
| Message-ID: | 20180403132439.GA11837@momjian.us |
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On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 08:21:45PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> 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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