Peter Kovacs wrote: >I've just installed the latest unstable release of postgresql (v 7.0.2) on >my machine, and I'm a little confused with an inconsistency in the local >documentation and the docs provided at Postgresql.org. > >On this page: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/tutorial/advanced.htm#AEN1494 >it says that the "Select * from cities*" is old, deprecated >behavior. However in my local copy the documentation reflects that as the >current behavior. > >As far as I can tell 7.0.2 is the latest. Does anybody know the source of >the inconsistency? I'd really rather prefer the behavior documented at >the site (by default the query examines subclasses).
7.0.2 uses the behaviour from your local documentation (SELECT * FROM cities*) The behaviour documented at www.postgresql.org will be that of release 7.1, but seems to have made its way prematurely into public view. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C ======================================== "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6
