From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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To: | Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: pgstat documentation tables |
Date: | 2012-01-15 14:34:12 |
Message-ID: | CABUevEy2Bm=qHMORfOA0g7qozm3V3pS-+2UN17N+j9o6boEZbA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:35, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 01/15/2012 03:51 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>
>> I'd like to turn that into one table for each view, with two columns,
>> one being the name the other one being the description. That'll also
>> make it possible to expand on the descriptions without making it
>> completley unreadable, should we want to.
>
>
> Scott Mead's pg_stat_activity refactoring patch already was forced toward
> doing something similar for its documentation to be readable (maybe exactly
> the same as you were thinking, can't tell because my SGML-fu is weak) . I
> feel doing this for every view in there is inevitable, just a matter of when
> to bite on the problem. This whole section is barely usable in its current
> form. I strongly hope the pg_stat_activity patch goes in, which will be
> close to a compelling event to motivate fixing the rest of them in a similar
> way. I would advocate leading with that one until it seems right, then
> adopting the same style of reorg to the rest until they're all converted.
Yes, the pg_stat_activity patch will make it more important - but I
want to do it for *all* of them...
I'll be happy to do the mechanical work on turning them into table,
but yes, I was planning to look at the pg_stat_activity patch first
all along :)
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Magnus Hagander
Me: http://www.hagander.net/
Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
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