From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | Lukas Eder <lukas(dot)eder(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: BUG #15356: Inconsistent documentation about CREATE TYPE |
Date: | 2018-11-20 08:53:16 |
Message-ID: | 6e72744a-459d-c9c5-1ffc-3a805349b67d@2ndquadrant.com |
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On 13/11/2018 11:01, Lukas Eder 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?
>
> Makes sense, thanks
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