doc: Clarify description of VALUES command

Greg Smith
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Peter Eisentraut 2013-06-06 21:03:04 -04:00
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@ -1609,7 +1609,16 @@ SELECT 3, 'three';
<literal>VALUES</> table. The column names are not specified by the
SQL standard and different database systems do it differently, so
it's usually better to override the default names with a table alias
list.
list, like this:
<programlisting>
=> SELECT * FROM (VALUES (1, 'one'), (2, 'two'), (3, 'three')) AS t (num,letter);
num | letter
-----+--------
1 | one
2 | two
3 | three
(3 rows)
</programlisting>
</para>
<para>