Re: Most-common value docs in PG 12

On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 05:17:55PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2019-Sep-26, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 06:15:22PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > > On 2019-Aug-30, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > >
> > > > OK, how is this patch? I didn't mention psql since I think everyone
> > > > expects psql to show all information about tables and indexes.
> > >
> > > Why would you change perform.sgml? It seems unnecessary; the commands
> > > shown work fine.
> >
> > I realize they work fine, but the ordering in the examples not matching
> > the defined order suggests that ordering matters, but it does not.
>
> Well, I mean exactly the other way around: the fact that the orders
> don't match illustrates that the order is not important. And that is
> reinforced by the explanation indicating explicitly that it does not
> matter:

Uh, people normally list things in defined order, so you would usually
not list them in non-defined order unless there is a purpose. Doing
that just to illustrate the order doesn't matter seems odd.

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