Re: man3 Documentation

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
To: Tristan Partin <tristan(at)partin(dot)io>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Subject: Re: man3 Documentation
Date: 2026-08-05 16:08:38
Message-ID: 6731ecff-ec82-4b06-918f-dfd917f27739@eisentraut.org
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On 04.08.26 20:52, Tristan Partin wrote:
> Out of curiosity, I was trying to understand what man pages we generate.
> I found man pgaes for the executables in man1 and a ton of documentation
> in man7 related to SQL commands. The contents in man3 was a bit
> perplexing. We only document a set of dblink SQL functions and a set of
> SPI C functions.

Man pages are produced for all refentry markup. If you want to add
more, you would have to format the material to fit into that schema. I
think proposals for more man pages could be considered.

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