pgsql: Doc: improve description of trim() and related functions.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Doc: improve description of trim() and related functions.
Date: 2016-11-30 18:34:34
Message-ID: E1cC9iE-0000oq-96@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Doc: improve description of trim() and related functions.

Per bug #14441 from Mark Pether, the documentation could be misread,
mainly because some of the examples failed to show what happens with
a multicharacter "characters to trim" string. Also, while the text
description in most of these entries was fairly clear that the
"characters" argument is a set of characters not a substring to match,
some of them used variant wording that was a bit less clear.
trim() itself suffered from both deficiencies and was thus pretty
misinterpretable.

Also fix failure to explain which of LEADING/TRAILING/BOTH is the
default.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20161130011710.6539.53657@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Branch
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REL9_3_STABLE

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/35532e3b0a96345d230893cb18cb9590cdef142c

Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/func.sgml | 27 ++++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

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