Re: libpq documentation cleanups (repost 3)

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Leslie S Satenstein <lsatenstein(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Subject: Re: libpq documentation cleanups (repost 3)
Date: 2011-01-12 21:05:12
Message-ID: 1294866312.6322.0.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On ons, 2011-01-12 at 12:04 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > The attached patch is a collection of libpq documentation cleanups
> > recommended in a list of changes emailed to me by Leslie S Satenstein.
> >
> > Leslie found a number of places our libpq documentation that were unclear
> > or awkward, and this diff generated by me attempts to address them.
> >
> > I have already updated the documentation proofreading wiki:
> >
> > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Documentation_Proofreading
>
> I don't think changing "see below" to "refer below" or "call" to
> "execute" is an improvement; even if we did that uniformly throughout
> our documentation, surely future editors are going to reuse those
> phrasings.

Agreed.

> A lot of these other changes look pretty dubious too, although some
> seem worthwhile.

Agreed. :-/

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