On Tue, Nov 3, 2026 at 4:37 AM Arvind Kandpal <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I think if you want to go in that direction, you should refactor saying > > something like "* is the shorthand for all the user-defined columns (see > > system columns)". What do you think? > > Thanks for the suggestion. Changing the existing sentence is cleaner > than adding a new one. > > The attached v3 changes the first sentence of that paragraph on the > SELECT reference page to say that * is a shorthand for all the columns > of the selected rows, not including system columns, with a link to the > System Columns section. I used "not including system columns" instead > of "user-defined columns", since the docs don't use that term for this. > I also dropped the example to keep the change small.
Hey Arvind, it LGTM with a small change: "* is a shorthand for all the columns of the selected rows (not including <xref linkend="ddl-system-columns" endterm="system columns"/>)." What do you think?
