Re: Duplicate paragraph

On Tuesday, May 25, 2021, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 09:35:49PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
> >> They are two different things, as evidenced by there being two different
> >> sections with different section headings, that use the same fundamental
> writing
> >> rules.
>
> > We have gotten reports about this perceived duplication before --- not
> > sure how we can improve things.
>
> Yeah, I was just thinking the same. The rules *are* largely the same,
> by design, so the text is necessarily going to be pretty similar.
> But merging these sections doesn't sound like an improvement.

Agrreed.

>
> One thing we could easily do is not use isomorphic examples in the two
> sections. For example, instead of illustrating how to spell "data" in
> both forms, use "name" as the example for the identifier case.
>
>
+1. This is the kind change I expected to find once I started looking for
specifics.

David J.