Re: CREATE/ALTER PUBLICATION improvements for syntax synopsis

On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Thanks for addressing the comments. V5 looks good to me.

Thanks both for the patch and review!

-<phrase>where <replaceable
class="parameter">all_publication_object</replaceable> is one
of:</phrase>
+ <phrase>where <replaceable
class="parameter">table_spec</replaceable> is:</phrase>
+
+ [ ONLY ] <replaceable
class="parameter">table_name</replaceable> [ * ] [ ( <replaceable
class="parameter">column_name</replaceable> [, ... ] ) ] [ WHERE (
<replaceable class="parameter">expression</replaceable> ) ]
+
+<phrase>where <replaceable
class="parameter">publication_all_object</replaceable> is one
of:</phrase>

In other documentation files (e.g., merge.sgml, analyze.sgml), the definitions
of each element are chained using "and". For example, in merge.sgml:

where data_source is:
...
and when_clause is:
...
and merge_insert is:
...

I think create_publication.sgml and alter_publication.sgml should follow
the same style for consistency. For example, in create_publication.sgml
we would have:

where publication_object
...
and publication_all_object
...
and table_spec
...

It seems better to put these sections in the same order that the elements
appear in the syntax. So I placed publication_all_object before table_spec
in the above example.

-<phrase>where <replaceable
class="parameter">all_publication_object</replaceable> is one
of:</phrase>
+ <phrase>where <replaceable
class="parameter">table_spec</replaceable> is:</phrase>

Regarding terminology: analyze.sgml uses table_and_columns for
a similar syntax, and personally I think table_and_columns is clearer than
table_spec.

Regards,

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Fujii Masao