Commit 9b0a8686 authored by Robert Haas's avatar Robert Haas

Reorder docs on lexical structure slightly for clarity.

Thom Brown
parent 30c22eb8
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<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>
......@@ -65,6 +59,12 @@ INSERT INTO MY_TABLE VALUES (3, 'hi there');
commands can usefully be split across lines).
</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
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