Re: improve predefined roles documentation

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: improve predefined roles documentation
Date: 2024-06-26 00:38:15
Message-ID: CAKFQuwb2jsXJgc=FQmifFk17D8dryU9_3=FtWu1w09u7PHtztA@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 1:19 PM Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 04:04:03PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > Looking at this again, how happy are you with the way you've got
> > several roles per <varlistentry> instead of one for each? I realize
> > that was probably part of the intent of the change, to move the data
> > from below the table into the table, and I see the merit of that. But
> > one of your other complaints was the entries in the table were
> > unordered, and it's hard for them to really be ordered if you have
> > groups like this, since you can't alphabetize, for example, unless you
> > have just a single entry per <varlistentry>.
>
> Yeah, my options were to either separate the roles or to weaken the
> ordering, and I guess I felt like the weaker ordering was slightly less
> bad. The extra context in some of the groups seemed worth keeping, and
> this probably isn't the only page of our docs that might require ctrl+f.
> But I'll yield to the majority opinion here.
>
>
There are few enough that logical grouping instead of strict alphabetical
makes sense.

v4 WFM

David J.

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