Include example of Postgres' extended query syntax which allow one to omit

 the FROM clause. e.g. "SELECT table.*".

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/select.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/select.sgml
index a1b0ec4fe331aaabe1dc3374d784b61bc0d14f2d..315447a0beae7b9554f1e246a675bdba769582dc 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/select.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/select.sgml
@@ -494,6 +494,27 @@ SELECT actors.name
   
   
   
+   
+    1998-09-24
+   
+   </div>
<div class="diff add">+    <acronym>Extensions</acronym></div>
<div class="diff add">+   
+
+   
+Postgres allows one to omit 
+the FROM clause from a query. This feature
+was retained from the original PostQuel query language:
+  
+SELECT distributors.* WHERE name = 'Westwood';
+
+    did|name
+    ---+----------------
+    108|Westward
+  
+   
+
+  
    
     1998-09-24