Re: doc: add missing "id" attributes to extension packaging page

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Brar Piening <brar(at)gmx(dot)de>
Cc: vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Karl O(dot) Pinc" <kop(at)karlpinc(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: doc: add missing "id" attributes to extension packaging page
Date: 2023-01-10 05:22:53
Message-ID: 210513.1673328173@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Brar Piening <brar(at)gmx(dot)de> writes:
> On 09.01.2023 at 21:18, Tom Lane wrote:
>> * I got rid of a couple of "-et-al" additions, because it did not
>> seem like a good precedent. That would tempt people to modify
>> existing ID tags when adding variables to an entry, which'd defeat
>> the purpose I think.

> I tried to use it sparsely, mostly where a varlistentry had multiple
> child items and I had arbitrarily pick one of them. It's not important,
> though. I'm curious how you solved this.

I just removed "-et-al", I didn't question your choice of the principal
variable name. As you say, it didn't seem to matter that much.

regards, tom lane

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