On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 12:24:45PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 10:58:54PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes: > > > I have implemented the ideas above in the attached patch. I have > > > synchronized the syntax to match SELECT, and synchronized the paragraphs > > > describing the item. > > > > I think that the DELETE synopsis should look like > > > > [ USING <replaceable class="parameter">from_item</replaceable> [, ...] ] > > > > so that there's not any question which part of the SELECT syntax we're > > talking about. I also think that the running text in both cases should > > say in exactly these words "from_item means the same thing as it does > > in SELECT"; the wording you propose still seems to be dancing around > > the point, leaving readers perhaps not quite sure about what is meant. > > > > In the DELETE case you could alternatively say "using_item means the same > > thing as from_item does in SELECT", but that doesn't really seem like an > > improvement to me. > > OK, updated patch attached.
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