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Re: ToDo List Item - System Table Index Clustering

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: saiken@quietlycompetent.com, Simone Aiken <saiken@ulfheim.net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-01-19T19:26:02Z
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  1. Add new buffers_backend_fsync field to pg_stat_bgwriter.

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Simone Aiken
> <saiken@quietlycompetent.com> wrote:
>> Pages like this one have column comments for the system tables:
>> 
>> http://www.psql.it/manuale/8.3/catalog-pg-attribute.html

> Oh, I see.  I don't think we want to go there.  We'd need some kind of
> system for keeping the two places in sync.

I seem to recall some muttering about teaching genbki to extract such
comments from the SGML sources or perhaps the C header files.  I tend to
agree though that it would be a lot more work than it's worth.  And as
you say, pg_description entries aren't free.

Which brings up another point though.  I have a personal TODO item to
make the comments for operator support functions more consistent:
http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/21407.1287157253@sss.pgh.pa.us
Should we consider removing those comments altogether, instead?

			regards, tom lane