Re: Poll: are people okay with function/operator table redesign?

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Oleksandr Shulgin <oleksandr.shulgin@zalando.de>
Cc: PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-05-05T15:17:24Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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Oleksandr Shulgin <oleksandr.shulgin@zalando.de> writes:
> Would it be premature to complain about the not-that-great look of Table
> 9.1 now?
> Compare the two attached images: the screenshot from
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/functions-comparison.html
> vs the GIMP-assisted pipe dream of mine to align it to the right edge of
> the table cell.

Hmph.  I experimented with the attached patch, but at least in my browser
it only reduces the spacing inconsistency, it doesn't eliminate it.
And from a semantic standpoint, this is not nice markup.

Doing better would require substantial foolery with sub-columns and I'm
not even sure that it's possible to fix that way.  (We don't have huge
control over inter-column spacing, I don't think.)

On the whole, if this is our worst table problem, I'm happy ;-)

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Doc: re-re-revise markup for tables of functions.

  2. Doc: revise formatting of function/operator tables.