Re: 7.1. Overview (The SQL Language)

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Grzegorz Szpetkowski
<gszpetkowski@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/queries-overview.html
>
> "Assuming that there is a table called table1, this command would
> retrieve all rows and all columns from table1."
>
> Maybe it's worth adding:
>
> "Assuming that there is a table called table1, this command would
> retrieve all rows and all columns (excluding system columns described
> at Section 5.4) from table1."

Since this is a basic SQL tutorial, we don't want to get too far down
into the weeds, or people will get confused.  The next sentence would
need some thought, too:

 The select list specification <literal>*</literal> means all columns
that the table expression happens to provide.

Possibly we could add a footnote?

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