From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | lukas(dot)eder(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: BUG #15356: Inconsistent documentation about CREATE TYPE |
Date: | 2018-11-13 09:45:36 |
Message-ID: | 3d48cb5f-1317-bec2-13ab-e8b83518b5b3@2ndquadrant.com |
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On 28/08/2018 14:56, PG Bug reporting form wrote:
> The CREATE TYPE documentation [1] specifies that enum types without any enum
> labels are possible:
>
> CREATE TYPE name AS ENUM ( [ 'label' [, ... ] ] )
>
> I can confirm this. The following statement works well:
>
> CREATE TYPE e AS ENUM ();
>
> However, further down in the same documentation page, we can see:
>
> "Enum types take a list of one or more quoted labels"
>
> It should read "zero or more quoted labels". I suspect this should be
> adapted on all documentation pages from PostgreSQL 9.0 onwards. In 8.4, the
> documentation was consistent [2]
Right. How about the attached patch?
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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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0001-doc-Clarify-CREATE-TYPE-ENUM-documentation.patch | text/plain | 1.4 KB |
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