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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml index 887c0dc1d2b..c17bba1ac41 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <!-- -$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml,v 1.75 2003/02/19 03:13:24 momjian Exp $ +$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml,v 1.76 2003/03/13 01:30:29 petere Exp $ --> <chapter id="sql-syntax"> @@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ UPDATE "my_table" SET "a" = 5; <para> Quoting an identifier also makes it case-sensitive, whereas unquoted names are always folded to lower case. For example, the - identifiers <literal>FOO</literal>, <literal>foo</literal> and + identifiers <literal>FOO</literal>, <literal>foo</literal>, and <literal>"foo"</literal> are considered the same by <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>, but <literal>"Foo"</literal> and <literal>"FOO"</literal> are different from these three and @@ -414,10 +414,10 @@ CAST ( '<replaceable>string</replaceable>' AS <replaceable>type</replaceable> ) function-call syntaxes can also be used to specify run-time type conversions of arbitrary expressions, as discussed in <xref linkend="sql-syntax-type-casts">. But the form - <replaceable>type</replaceable> '<replaceable>string</replaceable>' + <literal><replaceable>type</replaceable> '<replaceable>string</replaceable>'</literal> can only be used to specify the type of a literal constant. Another restriction on - <replaceable>type</replaceable> '<replaceable>string</replaceable>' + <literal><replaceable>type</replaceable> '<replaceable>string</replaceable>'</literal> is that it does not work for array types; use <literal>::</literal> or <literal>CAST()</literal> to specify the type of an array constant. </para> @@ -597,7 +597,7 @@ CAST ( '<replaceable>string</replaceable>' AS <replaceable>type</replaceable> ) <listitem> <para> - The period (<literal>.</literal>) is used in floating-point + The period (<literal>.</literal>) is used in numeric constants, and to separate schema, table, and column names. </para> </listitem> @@ -870,7 +870,7 @@ SELECT 3 OPERATOR(pg_catalog.+) 4; <listitem> <para> - A positional parameter reference, in the body of a function declaration. + A positional parameter reference, in the body of a function definition. </para> </listitem> |