Re: <application> vs <command> for command line tools in the docs

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: ilmari(at)ilmari(dot)org (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker )
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: <application> vs <command> for command line tools in the docs
Date: 2020-06-21 15:16:43
Message-ID: 1891422.1592752603@sss.pgh.pa.us
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ilmari(at)ilmari(dot)org (Dagfinn Ilmari =?utf-8?Q?Manns=C3=A5ker?=) writes:
> While I was looking at linkifying SQL commands in the system catalog
> docs, I noticed that catalog.sgml uses the <command> tag to refer to
> initdb, while I'd expected it to use <application>.

I agree that the latter is what we generally use.

regards, tom lane

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