From: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | bilge(at)scriptfusion(dot)com, Pg Docs <pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Chapter 7. Queries |
Date: | 2020-09-15 01:03:54 |
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On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 2:37 AM PG Doc comments form <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org>
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> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
>
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/queries.html
> Description:
>
> I like to browse documentation by index rather than searching.
What you describe is browsing the table of contents.
> The Postgres
> documentation is fairly well organized so this is easy for most topics.
> However, on the "Chapter 7. Queries" index page, I often think I am in the
> wrong place if I am looking for information about UNION or ORDER BY,
> because
> those keywords are missing from that page. Unlike all the other headings,
> the headings for these two topics does not include the relevant keywords in
> teletype. I think it is important to include the keywords, particularly for
> people whom already know which keyword they're looking for.
>
The "index" is an actual section and searching for both UNION and ORDER BY
turns up entries there.
For example, I propose the following changes:
> 7.4. Combining Queries -> 7.4. Combining Queries with UNION
> 7.5. Sorting Rows -> 7.5. Sorting Rows with ORDER BY
>
Given that 7.6 is named "LIMIT and OFFSET" I don't have an issue with
adding the relevant keywords (including EXCEPT and INTERSECT) in those two
places.
If there are other examples I've missed where a topic is bound to a specific
> keyword, they should updated similarly.
>
I didn't look for any...
David J.
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