Gavin Sherry wrote:
> > A few examples on the command references pages to show how it can be
> > useful are probably OK, but the big picture shoulbd be developed in
> > chapter 7 or so.
> 
> What do we want to do about documenting:
> 
> regression=# values(1);
>  column1
> ---------
>        1
> (1 row)
> 
> It seems to me that if this isn't in the command reference we'll see an
> email every few months say 'is this an undocumented feature?'. We can
> cover it easily in Part II, 7.2 but people wont look there. Then again, it
> just doesn't seem right to put it in the command reference as a 'top
> level' command.

How many people are going to think of doing a VALUES(1)?  Isn't it just
like SELECT 1?  We can try making VALUES a non-toplevel command, and if
people get confused, we can promote in the documenation.  I think
starting it at top-level is perhaps confusing.

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