Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: remove tags.

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: remove tags.
Date: 2011-02-07 15:59:53
Message-ID: 201102071559.p17Fxrb07886@momjian.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > Which way did we more commonly do it before you applied this patch?
>
> We don't have a standard for this, and an undocumented patch applied
> without any discussion doesn't create one. It's hopeless to imagine
> that you'll ever achieve any uniformity that way. It won't last long
> if you do, since you're outnumbered by committers who won't be following
> whatever you think the convention is.

Well, the problem is that we then have paragraphs where a number is
fixed width, and in the next paragraph it isn't; this is particuarly
true in the config.sgml file where we show defaults. Seems worth trying
to make that consistent. I am happy to do whatever we agree on --- I
don't have an opinion.

> I'm not even sure why you're trying --- I don't think it even makes
> sense to try to have a standard about this. I can easily imagine that
> integer constants might read better with <literal> in some contexts
> and better without in others.

Yes, I reviewed all the places and left <literal> where it made sense.

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