| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
|---|---|
| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Comments on system tables and columns |
| Date: | 2011-05-05 18:38:25 |
| Message-ID: | 201105051838.p45IcPn27707@momjian.us |
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Thom Brown's message of lun mar 28 08:14:07 -0300 2011:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I notice that none of the system tables or columns thereof bear any
> > comments. Is this intentional, or an oversight? I would have thought
> > comments would be useful since the column names aren't exactly always
> > self-explanatory.
>
> Bruce has been working on changes to have catalog objects (tables, views
> and columns) contain comments, but he deferred it to 9.2 because it
> involved nontrivial pieces of infrastructure (mainly to avoid
> duplication with the SGML catalog documentation).
Attached are diffs that change the Makefile and initdb, and a perl
script to pull the system view comments out of the SGML docs. I need to
do more work to pull stuff for the system tables. This does work in
testing.
I will work on this more for 9.2.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
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