Re: [PATCH] Remove trailing whitespaces from documentation

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Vladimir Rusinov <vrusinov(at)google(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove trailing whitespaces from documentation
Date: 2016-12-14 21:57:11
Message-ID: 8de8cb20-f8a6-6d2c-4b80-c185aef0728c@2ndquadrant.com
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On 12/14/16 4:51 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Thinking about this, I'm wondering what is the connection between
> what psql does and what should be in the SGML (or XML) docs, anyway.
> Nobody says boo when we have to do s/</&lt;/g to an example in order
> to put it in the docs; why is stripping trailing whitespace a bigger
> issue?

There is a previous discussion for that, too, equally inconclusive:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/1383707883.10722.5.camel%40vanquo.pezone.net

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