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authorRobert Haas2010-08-13 01:12:38 +0000
committerRobert Haas2010-08-13 01:12:38 +0000
commit9b0a86861a5d5cfe35fe8c876289402891022d4a (patch)
tree00a0665b6812a1917b981f802afb6b2eae04e08a
parent30c22eb8fc9cb0d359a4a943f0fcc0418bbca523 (diff)
Reorder docs on lexical structure slightly for clarity.
Thom Brown
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
index 4ae3df325c9..f3cff8ed2d8 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml,v 1.152 2010/08/12 02:03:58 momjian Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml,v 1.153 2010/08/13 01:12:38 rhaas Exp $ -->
<chapter id="sql-syntax">
<title>SQL Syntax</title>
@@ -47,12 +47,6 @@
special character is adjacent to some other token type).
</para>
- <para>
- Additionally, <firstterm>comments</firstterm> can occur in SQL
- input. They are not tokens, they are effectively equivalent to
- whitespace.
- </para>
-
<para>
For example, the following is (syntactically) valid SQL input:
<programlisting>
@@ -66,6 +60,12 @@ INSERT INTO MY_TABLE VALUES (3, 'hi there');
</para>
<para>
+ Additionally, <firstterm>comments</firstterm> can occur in SQL
+ input. They are not tokens, they are effectively equivalent to
+ whitespace.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
The SQL syntax is not very consistent regarding what tokens
identify commands and which are operands or parameters. The first
few tokens are generally the command name, so in the above example