Re: Adding xreflable

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Adding xreflable
Date: 2020-06-04 17:14:17
Message-ID: 1a9904ee-b5f5-768b-25f4-5be52ee6ce7e@2ndquadrant.com
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On 2020-06-02 18:07, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I can adjust things, but what logic are we following? Before my patch,
> sepgsql had an xreflabel, and vacuumlo did not. I would like to have a
> documented policy of where we should have xreflabels, and where not, and
> I can then adjust things to match. I don't mind using <link> but it is
> confusing to be able to reference xreflabels in some places and be
> required to use link in others.

One reason for that difference specifically is that vacuumlo is refentry
which can generate its own link text like "vacuumlo(1)", and sepgsql is
a sect1, which by default creates text like "Section 23.2", which
perhaps someone wanted to override.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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