Re: Please provide examples of rows from

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 08:53:51PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 12:37 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> 
>     On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 03:05:24PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>     > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
>     > > Yes, this is very helpful.  I was afraid the JSON would overwhelm the
>     > > example, but this looks good.  I wrote the attached doc patch which I
>     > > think improves this.  I plan to apply it to all supported versions.
>     >
>     > Couple thoughts:
>     >
>     > * Taking the initial ... out of the syntax synopsis is not an
>     improvement.
>     > It makes it look like you can only apply AS to the first function of a
>     > ROWS FROM.
> 
>     Oh, so the dots represent optional non-column_definition function calls.
>     I can't think if a cleaner way to show that, so I guess "..." will have
>     to do.
> 
> 
> My original comment was a question predicated upon the fact that the SELECT
> reference page doesn't include the leading; probably should add them there as
> part of this patch.

I looked at that but in the SELECT manual page case, the example is
already part of a larger list of options so I don't think it is needed.

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