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From Peter Eisentraut
Subject ONLY with parentheses
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Msg-id 496600E1.9000706@gmx.net
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Responses Re: ONLY with parentheses  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Re: ONLY with parentheses  (Cédric Villemain <cedric.villemain@dalibo.com>)
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While working on TRUNCATE with ONLY, I said to myself, hmm, when writing

TRUNCATE ONLY a, b

it might be a bit confusing whether the ONLY refers to a or both a and 
b.  Then I noticed that the SQL standard requires parentheses, like

TRUNCATE ONLY (a), b

which is clearer.  While we support that in gram.y, I don't see it 
anywhere in the documentation.

Should we document this and emphasize it as having more clarity?


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