Re: 11.7 Indexes on Expressions: editorial correction

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: farmernick-pg(at)varteg(dot)nz, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 11.7 Indexes on Expressions: editorial correction
Date: 2020-05-21 23:50:28
Message-ID: 20200521235028.GA24478@momjian.us
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On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 10:32:01AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> PG Doc comments form <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> > The paragraph that begins "If we were to declare this index UNIQUE,..."
> > refers to the index test1_lower_col1_idx, not to the test1_uniq_int index it
> > currently follows. It would appear the latter example was spliced into the
> > middle of discussing the former.
>
> Yes, this was complained of before:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/E1ikvbp-0005jW-E9%40gemulon.postgresql.org
>
> I remain of the opinion that we'd be best off to just revert
> a9760d0f3 altogether. Bruce's last proposal mostly did that,
> but it still insisted on muddying an existing example with an
> unrelated comment.

Muddy patch applied. ;-) I am open to clarifying it but I think we
need something in our docs about this idea.

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