Re: System catalog documentation chapter

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: System catalog documentation chapter
Date: 2022-07-12 21:17:51
Message-ID: Ys3k/4nWw9n3LgqH@momjian.us
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On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 08:56:36PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 08.07.22 21:32, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 12:07:45PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 11:49:47AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > > Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > > > > Agreed. I don't want to break links into the documentation in final
> > > > > released versions, so head and PG15 seem wise.
> > > >
> > > > I would not expect this to change the doc URLs for any individual
> > > > catalogs or views --- if it does, I won't be happy.
> > >
> > > Good point --- I thought the chapter was in the URL, but I now see it is
> > > just the section heading:
> > >
> > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/view-pg-available-extensions.html
> > >
> > > so I guess we can backpatch this with no issues.
> >
> > Attached is a patch to accomplish this. Its output can be seen here:
> >
> > https://momjian.us/tmp/pgsql/internals.html
>
> views.sgml is a pretty generic name for a chapter that just contains system
> views.

Yes, I struggled with that. What made me choose "views" is that the
current name was catalogs.sgml, not syscatalogs.sgml. If is acceptable
to use catalogs.sgml and sysviews.sgml?

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