| From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pgstat documentation tables |
| Date: | 2012-02-08 22:21:09 |
| Message-ID: | CABUevExaXq+jgOTu=NDogZVkSU1jP21vsPE7xjcCEXs4O3+e9A@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 17:13, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 11:29:12PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)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...
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