Re: create_help.pl treats <literal> as replaceable

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: create_help.pl treats <literal> as replaceable
Date: 2022-05-23 11:11:47
Message-ID: 87acb592-4111-fe5a-6be9-37cf84902489@enterprisedb.com
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On 18.05.22 18:29, Tom Lane wrote:
> I think you should have upper-cased MATCH while at it, to make it clear
> that it acts like a keyword in this context. The current situation is
> quite unreadable in plain-ASCII output:
>
> regression=# \help copy
> Command: COPY
> ...
> HEADER [ boolean | match ]
> ...
>
> Since "boolean" is a metasyntactic variable here, it's absolutely
> not obvious that "match" isn't.

done

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