| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pgstat documentation tables |
| Date: | 2012-02-08 16:13:57 |
| Message-ID: | 20120208161357.GF24440@momjian.us |
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On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 11:29:12PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > How do people feel about pulling text out of the SGML docs and loading
> > it into the database as table and column comments?
>
> I'm not thrilled by that proposal. The length limits on comments are
> very much shorter than what is sensible to use in catalogs.sgml (at
> least if you want the comments to look passable in \d displays). And
> I don't want people trying to serve two different use-cases when they
> write those.
I was thinking of just grabbing the first X characters from the SGML
comments.
> Perhaps it'd work to pull column comments from the C header files
> --- any same-line comment in catalog/pg_*.h is probably short enough to
> serve this purpose usefully.
Yes, that would be simpler.
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