From 5be77ca563e8dce4fbaa15387186de8448a7a413 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert Haas Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 01:12:51 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Reorder docs on lexical structure slightly for clarity. Thom Brown --- doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml index 96817c05cf..3d108e1e46 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - + SQL Syntax @@ -47,12 +47,6 @@ special character is adjacent to some other token type). - - Additionally, comments can occur in SQL - input. They are not tokens, they are effectively equivalent to - whitespace. - - For example, the following is (syntactically) valid SQL input: @@ -65,6 +59,12 @@ INSERT INTO MY_TABLE VALUES (3, 'hi there'); commands can usefully be split across lines). + + Additionally, comments can occur in SQL + input. They are not tokens, they are effectively equivalent to + whitespace. + + The SQL syntax is not very consistent regarding what tokens identify commands and which are operands or parameters. The first