Re: split func.sgml to separated individual sgml files

On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:

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> On 2025-09-01 Mo 11:44 AM, Florents Tselai wrote:
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> On 1 Sep 2025, at 4:35 PM, Euler Taveira <euler(at)eulerto(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 1, 2025, at 7:35 AM, Florents Tselai wrote:
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> While working on this https://commitfest.postgresql.org/patch/6020/
> I discovered that when changing for func/func-aggregate.sgml, the HTML
> wasn’t marked for update.
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> IIUC the doc/Makefile should be updated as attached, right ?
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> Good catch.
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> However, your patch doesn't fix all issues. The check target (check-tabs
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> check-nbsp) is broken; these targets should also include the func files.
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> Ah, you’re right, but then again, I’d expect ALL_SGML to be used
> consistently, but it isn't and I didn't check.
> v3 does that.
> Note that GENERATED_SGML where'te included in these two targets but I
> think there's no harm in checking them too.
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> Do we actually care about those? I don't want to add needless cycles
> anywhere. I note that the meson.build doesn't appear to have a check target
> at all, or anything that looks for hard tabs or nbsps.Those checks were
> added to the Makefile back in October in commit 5b7da5c261d, but that got
> missed even though Daniel had mentioned it in the discussion thread.[1]
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From the message and discussion in 5b7da5c261d it looks like we do;
and I've seen some messages here and there that people have indeed trouble
applying patches due to spurious whitespace
and special chars.
So I assume the better solution would be having such checks in meson too,