Re: Potential typo in abbreviated insertion query

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: fotis(dot)koutoupas(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Potential typo in abbreviated insertion query
Date: 2020-12-31 18:44:56
Message-ID: 20201231184456.GG22199@momjian.us
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On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 02:32:35AM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
>
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/executor.html
> Description:
>
> It's located within the parentheses of the last paragraph.
>
> >(A simple INSERT ... VALUES command creates a trivial plan tree consisting
> of a single Result node, which computes just one result row, and ModifyTable
> above it to perform the insertion. But INSERT ... SELECT can demand the full
> power of the executor mechanism.)
>
> I'm under the impression that the second inline code block refers to `INSERT
> ... VALUES`.

I think the text is correct, but I also think it is trying to do too
much in one paragraph. Here is a doc patch to improve this.

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