Re: BUG #15356: Inconsistent documentation about CREATE TYPE

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Lukas Eder <lukas.eder@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2018-11-20T08:53:16Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
On 13/11/2018 11:01, Lukas Eder wrote:
>     > The CREATE TYPE documentation [1] specifies that enum types
>     without any enum
>     > labels are possible:
>     >
>     >     CREATE TYPE name AS ENUM ( [ 'label' [, ... ] ] )
>     >
>     > I can confirm this. The following statement works well:
>     >
>     >     CREATE TYPE e AS ENUM ();
>     >
>     > However, further down in the same documentation page, we can see:
>     >
>     >     "Enum types take a list of one or more quoted labels"
>     >
>     > It should read "zero or more quoted labels". I suspect this should be
>     > adapted on all documentation pages from PostgreSQL 9.0 onwards. In
>     8.4, the
>     > documentation was consistent [2]
> 
>     Right.  How about the attached patch?
> 
> Makes sense, thanks 

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