Re: Updated backslash consistency patch

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch
Date: 2008-11-07 23:14:04
Message-ID: 20081107231404.GL5507@alvh.no-ip.org
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > 3. the help.c patch breaks alignment of the help output. I think the
> > best way to fix it would be to change [PATTERN] into something shorter
> > like [PAT] and add a mention to that in the first line, something like
>
> I'd rather stick with [PATTERN]. Can't we just add more spaces to keep
> all the descriptions aligned?

Yes, but it shortens the available space for all the texts (which could
cause some of them to become two lines, but I didn't check) and it means
the translations have to be updated.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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