Re: docs: Fix format of CREATE FOREIGN TABLE example in postgres_fdw

Yuchen Li <liyuchen_xyz@163.com>

From: Yuchen Li <liyuchen_xyz@163.com>
To: "Daniel Westermann (DWE)" <daniel.westermann@dbi-services.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-04-16T09:17:24Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 4/15/2026 5:27 PM, Daniel Westermann (DWE) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> while reading https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/postgres-fdw.html 
> <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/postgres-fdw.html> I've noticed 
> that there is a single bracket on one line of the CREATE FOREIGN TABLE 
> example.
>
> Browsing through other docs (e,g. 
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/sql-createtable.html 
> <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/sql-createtable.html> ) there 
> doesn't seem to be a rule for that but if there is a single bracket 
> (e.g. CREATE TABLE distributors), the options that follow usually 
> start at position one and are not indented (or they follow directly 
> after the bracket).
>
> The examples in file_fdw 
> (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/file-fdw.html) follow a mix of 
> options which directly follow the bracket and on a new line.
>
> Attached a small patch which makes it looking a bit better, at least 
> in my opinion.
>
> Regards
> Daniel

While looking through the patch, I noticed a small formatting issue in
the following part:

+)
+SERVER foreign_server
+OPTIONS (schema_name 'some_schema', table_name 'some_table');

The added +) line appears to have a trailing space after the closing
parenthesis.

Regards,
Yuchen Li