Re: --sync-method isn't documented to take an argument

From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: --sync-method isn't documented to take an argument
Date: 2023-10-04 14:56:54
Message-ID: 8CF2C172-4500-4A77-95DF-900F363D7196@yesql.se
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> On 4 Oct 2023, at 16:51, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> writes:
>> On 4 Oct 2023, at 16:39, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> I concluded a long time ago that it does nothing.
>
>> It does nothing in our current doc rendering, but if someone would like to
>> render docs with another style where it does make a difference it seems
>> unhelpful to not be consistent.
>
> To do that, we'd need some sort of agreement on what the possible
> "class" values are and when to use each one. I've never seen any
> documentation about that.

Thats fair. The 4.5 docbook guide isn't terribly helpful on what the
attributes mean and how they should be used:

https://tdg.docbook.org/tdg/4.5/replaceable

In the 5.2 version the text is slightly expanded but not by all that much:

https://tdg.docbook.org/tdg/5.2/replaceable

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Daniel Gustafsson

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