On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 10:58 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Gavin Sherry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Docs and regression tests attached.
> 
> I've applied the regression tests (with a few additions), but I'm
> feeling dissatisfied with this approach to documenting VALUES.
> It seems to be mostly missing the point about VALUES being usable
> whereever SELECT is.  I'm not at all sure what I'd do instead though.
> Should we give VALUES its own reference page?  That doesn't quite
> seem helpful either.  cc'ing to pgsql-docs for ideas.

The DB2 manual does exactly that and is not any clearer as a result,
even if it is fully normalised.

If we did that we'd need to emphasise that VALUES is more of a clause
than a new command.

-- 
  Simon Riggs
  EnterpriseDB          http://www.enterprisedb.com


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