Re: Comments on columns in the pg_catalog tables/views

David Fetter wrote:

>>Dept of second thoughts: actually, perhaps see if you can generate
>>the pg_description entries from the C comments in the
>>include/catalog header files. There's already a strong motivation
>>to hold those to shorter-than-a-line length, whereas the column
>>descriptions in catalogs.sgml tend to run on a little longer, and
>>wouldn't format nicely in \dt+.
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> My thought is that by the time somebody is doing \dt+ (or equivalent
> in other tools than psql) on a pg_catalog table or view, they need to
> see details and are at most slightly concerned about the formatting.

And not all tools have this formatting issue...
I like the long comments I can take from pg_settings, enabling pgAdmin
to deliver precise information on each config option.

Regards,
Andreas