Re: System catalog documentation chapter

From: Isaac Morland <isaac(dot)morland(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: System catalog documentation chapter
Date: 2022-07-20 20:23:21
Message-ID: CAMsGm5fr=f8DV7EBnaF2TML6+1_pwXE8zP+_w2_S3t=6yiamqw@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 at 16:08, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 01:41:44PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I am going to look at moving system views that make sense into the
> > chapters where their contents are mentioned. I don't think having a
> > central list of views is really helping us because we expect the views
> > to be used in ways the system catalogs would not be.
>
> I have grouped the views by topic. What I would like to do next is to
> move these view sections to the end of relevant documentation chapters.
> Is that going to be an improvement?

Will there be a comprehensive list somewhere? Even if it just lists the
views, gives maybe a one-sentence description, and links to the relevant
chapter, I would find that helpful sometimes.

I ask because I occasionally find myself wanting a comprehensive list of
functions, and as far as I can tell it doesn't exist. I'm hoping to avoid
that situation for views.

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