Re: libpq documentation cleanups (repost 3)

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: 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 17:04:40
Message-ID: AANLkTi=KS+8ojW7RSTvrmRMeMzoREcxrspyXtaiKCnzZ@mail.gmail.com
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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.

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

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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