From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgadmin-hackers <pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [DOCS] Remove name as valid parameter for catalog functions |
Date: | 2011-03-07 15:19:00 |
Message-ID: | 23947.1299511140@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> writes:
> Patch attached which corrects the docs where catalog functions no
> longer accept values of type name. Originally a note submitted by
> someone on the docs, but this affects more than just the one they
> mentioned.
The reason those are phrased as "OID or name" is that what they take is
regclass, which means that things like pg_total_relation_size('table_name')
do in fact work. I think the proposed wording would leave people with
the idea that they had to supply a numeric OID, which is a PITA and not
by any means the expected usage. I agree that maybe the original
wording could use some improvement, but I don't think that just removing
"or name" is an improvement.
regards, tom lane
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