| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Remove name as valid parameter for catalog functions |
| Date: | 2011-03-07 21:24:48 |
| Message-ID: | 14102.1299533088@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> writes:
> On 7 March 2011 23:30, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Maybe we could say "the name or OID of a table", or some such phrase,
>> so as to subtly avoid the expectation that what is being referred to
>> is the datatype named "name"?
> Yes, that would remove the ambiguity. :)
That wording turned out not to work well in context, at least not
without major surgery on the containing sentences. I decided that
the best way was to just say "specified table" in the function tables,
and then borrow the paragraph that explains about regclass
arguments from the sequence-functions page.
regards, tom lane
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