Re: [PATCH] Improve documentation of REINDEX options

út 17. 12. 2019 v 6:36 odesílatel Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
napsal:

> On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 10:28:33AM +0100, Josef Šimánek wrote:
> > I have prepared patch to improve documentation for REINDEX. It
> > should be more inline with another documentation pages.
> >
> > You can see the change applied in attached file. Patch can be found at
> > https://github.com/simi/postgres/pull/3 (diff -
> > https://github.com/simi/postgres/pull/3.diff, patch -
> > https://github.com/simi/postgres/pull/3.patch)
>
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>
> +<phrase>where <replaceable class="parameter">option</replaceable> can
> be:</phrase>
> +
> + VERBOSE
> Why not... We did that in the docs of ANALYZE for v11 when
> introducing the parenthesized grammar flavor for the options
> available.
>
> - Rebuild all the indexes on the table <literal>my_table</literal>:
> + Rebuild all the indexes on the table <literal>my_table</literal>
> with progress report per index:
>
> <programlisting>
> -REINDEX TABLE my_table;
> +REINDEX (VERBOSE) TABLE my_table;
> Not sure if this part brings much to the reader though. It is not
> like the command description of REINDEX is complicated with dozens
> of option choices.
>

For me this is the default way how to reindex whole table manually in psql
since you get some "progress". Anyway I can remove it if you don't see any
benefit in extending this example.

> --
> Michael
>