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Re: [PATCH] DOCS: Fix inconsistent text description punctuation in UPDATE FOR PORTION OF

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> — 2026-05-27T00:17:54Z

On Mon, May 25, 2026 at 06:14:05PM +0800, X-MAN wrote:
> Hi,
> I noticed an inconsistency in the documentation between UPDATE and DELETE 
> commands regarding the FOR PORTION OF clause description. 
> 
> In doc/src/sgml/ref/update.sgml (line 169), the description reads:
>   "must be in the form ( portion ) where portion is an expression..." 
> 
> In doc/src/sgml/ref/delete.sgml (line 166), it reads:
>  "must be in the form ( portion ), where portion is an expression..." 
> 
> The UPDATE documentation misses a comma before "where" that DELETE has.
> For consistency, add the comma to the UPDATE documentation to match DELETE.
> 
> I have recompiled the documentation and verified that
> share/doc/postgresql/html/sql-update.html and
> share/doc/postgresql/html/sql-delete.html are now consistent.

Good point, patch applied.

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