Re: Comments on columns in the pg_catalog tables/views

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Comments on columns in the pg_catalog tables/views
Date: 2005-10-12 22:14:00
Message-ID: 4627.1129155240@sss.pgh.pa.us
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David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> Before I dive into this, is there some reason why the pg_catalog.*
> tables/views should not have comments that match the descriptions in
> the docs? I can see where this could cause some maintenance issues,

Yeah. If you can figure a way to auto-generate the comments from the
sgml files, it'd be nice, but I definitely don't want to manually
maintain Yet Another set of per-column information.

regards, tom lane

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