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Reorder docs on lexical structure slightly for clarity.

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Thom Brown
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Robert Haas 2010-08-13 01:12:38 +00:00
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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml,v 1.152 2010/08/12 02:03:58 momjian Exp $ -->
<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml,v 1.153 2010/08/13 01:12:38 rhaas Exp $ -->
<chapter id="sql-syntax">
<title>SQL Syntax</title>
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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>
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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