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

David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>

From: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Isaac Morland <isaac.morland@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-04-13T21:26:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 1:57 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Actually ... if we did it like that, then it would be possible to treat
> the signature + description + example(s) as one big table cell with line
> breaks rather than row-separator bars.



> That would help address the
> inadequate-visual-separation-between-groups issue, but on the other hand
> maybe we'd end up with too little visual separation between the elements
> of a function description.
>

Speaking in terms of HTML if we use <hr /> instead of <br /> we would get
the best of both worlds.

David J.

Commits

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

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