Re: pgstat documentation tables
Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-02-08T22:21:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 17:13, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 11:29:12PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes: >> > How do people feel about pulling text out of the SGML docs and loading >> > it into the database as table and column comments? >> >> I'm not thrilled by that proposal. The length limits on comments are >> very much shorter than what is sensible to use in catalogs.sgml (at >> least if you want the comments to look passable in \d displays). And >> I don't want people trying to serve two different use-cases when they >> write those. > > I was thinking of just grabbing the first X characters from the SGML > comments. So that it wouldn't necessarily even make for a complete sentence? That seems like a really bad idea... -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/